David Frisby

Biographic Data

ID256850
NAMEDavid Frisby
GIVEN NAMESDavid
FAMILY NAMEFrisby
SIGNATUREFRISBY D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Glasgow
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS39
TOTAL CITATIONS199
AUTHOR COUNT38
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1972
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX9

  • Streets, Imaginaries, and Modernity: Vienna Is Not Berlin

    David FrisbyCHAPTERSpaces of the Modern City2021

  • The Social Theory of Georg Simmel

    Nicholas J Spykman, David FrisbyBOOKSocial Theory of Georg Simmel2017Cited by: 32

    Part 1 Social philosophy - methodology-epistemology: the concept of society sociology sociology as distinct from the social sciences and social psychology sociology as distinct from the philosophy of history and the search for historical laws the method and technique of formal sociology the prerequisites of socialization. Part 2 Social science - formal sociology: submission opposition the numerical relations of social forms the spatial relations …

  • The Alienated Mind (Routledge Revivals): The Sociology of Knowledge in Germany 1918-1933

    David FrisbyBOOKAlienated Mind2013

    This book, first published in 1983, with a second edition in 1992, investigates the emergence of the sociology of knowledge in Germany in the critical period from 1918 to 1933. These years witnessed the development of distinctive paradigms centred on the works of Max Scheler, Georg Lukács and Karl Mannheim. Each theorist sought to confront the base-superstructure models of the relationship between knowledge and society, which originated in Orthod…

  • Georg Simmel

    David FrisbyBOOKGeorg Simmel2013Cited by: 10

    Until recently little of Simmel's work was available in translation and certain key texts were unknown outside Germany. David Frisby, the eminent Simmel scholar, provides not only an introduction to the major sociological writings of this important figure, but also an argument for a reconsideration of his work. The author outlines the cultural and historical context in which Simmel worked; reviews Simmel's most important writings; and examines hi…

  • Sociological Impressionism (Routledge Revivals): A Reassessment of Georg Simmel's Social Theory

    David FrisbyBOOKSociological Impressionism2013Cited by: 53

    When Sociological Impressionism was first published in 1981, it was the first comprehensive study on Simmel's social theory to appear in English since 1925. A pioneering work, it did much to bring about the rediscovery of Georg Simmel as one of the key sociologists of the twentieth century. David Frisby provides a provocative introduction to aspects of Simmel's social theory, seriously challenging many interpretations of his work, most notably th…

  • Simmel and Since (Routledge Revivals)

    David FrisbyBOOKSimmel and since2011

    Originally published in 1992, this book, written by one of the world's leading experts on Simmel, provides a fascinating set of insights into a thinker who is fast becoming recognized as the sociologist of modernity; an indispensible resource in confronting post-modernity. It examines the relevance of his work in relation to contemporary debates on culture, aesthetics and modernity.

  • The Philosophy of Money

    Georg Simmel, David FrisbyBOOKPhilosophy of Money2011

  • The flâneur in social theory

    David FrisbyCHAPTERFlaneur2010

  • The spaces of the modern city: Imaginaries, politics, and everyday life

    Sheila Crane, Belinda Davis et al.BOOKSpaces of the Modern City2008

    By United Nations estimates, 60 percent of the world's population will be urban by 2030. With the increasing speed of urbanization, especially in the developing world, scholars are now rethinking standard concepts and histories of modern cities. "The Spaces of the Modern City" historicizes the contemporary discussion of urbanism, highlighting the local and global breadth of the city landscape. This interdisciplinary collection examines how the ci…

  • The Philosophy of Money

    Georg Simmel, David FrisbyBOOKPhilosophy of Money2004

    'I have lost interest ...in all that I have written prior to The Philosophy of Money . This one is really my book, the others appear to me colourless and seem as if they could have been written by anyone else.' - Georg Simmel to Heinrich Rickert (1904) In The Philosophy of Money , Simmel provides us with a remarkably wide-ranging discussion of the social, psychological and philosophical aspects of the money economy, full of brilliant insights int…

  • Georg Simmel (Key Sociologists)

    David FrisbyBOOKGeorg Simmel (Key Sociologists)2002

  • Introduction to Georg Simmel's 'On the Sociology of the Family

    Open AccessDavid FrisbyARTICLETheory Culture & Society1998Cited by: 1References: 2

    The Introduction to Simmel's early article on the family locates it in the context of his sociological concerns in the 1890s. The article is also placed in the context of his probable anthropological sources. Brief mention is made of some of his other contributions to the study of love and eroticism

  • The metropolis as text: Otto Wagner and Vienna's ‘second renaissance’

    David FrisbyARTICLERenaissance and Modern Studies1997References: 2

    (1997). The metropolis as text: Otto Wagner and Vienna's ‘second renaissance’. Renaissance and Modern Studies: Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 1-16

  • Introduction to the Simmel Texts

    Open AccessDavid FrisbyARTICLETheory Culture & Society1994Cited by: 2References: 1

  • The Many Faces of Georg Simmel

    Lewis Coser, Lewis A Coser et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1993Cited by: 1

  • Simmel and Since: Essays on Georg Simmel's Social Theory

    David FrisbyBOOKSimmel and since1992

    Part I Societies and individuals 1. The study of society 2. Georg Simmel and social psychology Part II Into modernity 3. German sociologists and modernity 4. Simmel and the study of modernity 5. Some economic aspects of The Philosophy of Money 6. Social space, the city and the metropolis 7. Leisure and modernity 8. The aesthetics of modern life Part III Since Simmel 9. Modernity, postmodernity and things

  • Between the Spheres: Siegfried Kracauer and the Detective Novel

    Open AccessDavid FrisbyARTICLETheory Culture & Society1992Cited by: 7References: 1

  • Bibilographical Rote on Simmel's Works in Translation

    Open AccessDavid FrisbyARTICLETheory Culture & Society1991Cited by: 4References: 16

  • The Aesthetics of Modern Life: Simmel's Interpretation

    Open AccessDavid FrisbyARTICLETheory Culture & Society1991Cited by: 11References: 3

  • Georg Simmel and the Study of Modernity

    David Frisby, David P FrisbyCHAPTERGeorg Simmel and Contemporary…1990

  • Georg Simmel’s Concept of Society

    David Frisby, David P FrisbyCHAPTERGeorg Simmel and Contemporary…1990

  • Fragments of Modernity: Theories of Modernity in the Work of Simmel, Kracauer and Benjamin

    Zygmunt Bauman, Simmel et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology1989Cited by: 11

  • Society

    Alan Swingewood, David Frisby et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology1988

  • Schopenhauer and Nietzsche

    David Frisby, Helmut Loiskandl et al.REVIEWContemporary Sociology A Journal…1987Cited by: 2References: 1

  • The Alienated Mind: The Sociology of Knowledge in Germany 1918-33

    Christopher Rootes, C A Rootes et al.ARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology1986Cited by: 1