Eros and Culture

Gender Theory in Simmel, Tonnies and Weber

Bibliographic Data

ID8088442
AuthorsKlaus Lichtblau (corresponding author)
Year1989
Volume1989
Issue82
Pages89-110
Publication date1989-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTelos (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-6514 • E-ISSN: 1940-459X
PublisherTelos (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.3817/1289082089
OpenAlexW2328640033
LanguageEN
Citations received9

When the "founding fathers" of German sociology set about to create a theory of cultural modernity, they treated gender as crucially important. At the same time, their work reflected the contemporary tendency to articulate the cultural crisis of the age as a gender problem. German sociology, which understood itself mostly as a Kulturwissenschaft, and the bourgeois women's movement mutually influenced each other. In fact, there were close personal contacts between male sociologists and leading figures in the women's movement. In the period before WWI, two gender issues in particular were much discussed in both circles: the gender-specific character of all social conditions and all "objective culture," and the significance of eroticism and sexual love in relation to marriage and culture-at-large

Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · German Social Sciences and History · Philosophy · Psychology · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory

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