Georg Simmel and German Culture

Unity, Variety and Modern Discontents

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ID5778048
AuthorsEfraim Podoksik (0000-0002-5327-1563, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author)
Year2021
Publication date2021-07-07
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueGeorg Simmel and German Culture (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781108990783
OpenAlexW3179220453
Open LibraryOL35578062M
ISBN9781108990783
LanguageDE
Citations received4
References cited8

The significance of the German philosopher and social thinker, Georg Simmel (1858-1918), is only now being recognised by intellectual historians. Through penetrating readings of Simmel's thought, taken as a series of reflections on the essence of modernity and modern civilisation, Efraim Podoksik places his ideas within the context of intellectual life in Germany, and especially Berlin, under the Kaiserreich. Modernity, characterised by the growing differentiation and fragmentation of culture and society, was a fundamental issue during Simmel's life, underpinning central intellectual debates in Imperial Germany. Simmel's thought is depicted here as an attempt at transforming the complexity of these debates into a coherent worldview that can serve as an effective guide to understanding their main parameters. Paying particular attention to the genealogy and usage of the concepts of Bildung, culture and civilisation in Germany, this study offers contextual analyses of Simmel's philosophies of culture, society, art, religion and the feminine, as well as his interpretations of Dante, Kant, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Goethe and Rembrandt

Aesthetics · Bildung · Civilization · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · German · German culture · Linguistics · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Social thought · Sociology · History · Law · Philosophy · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory

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