Simmel on Culture: Selected Writings (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) - Softcover

Georg Simmel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803986521 ISBN 13: 9780803986527

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

The German sociologist and philosopher Georg Simmel (1858-1918) is recognized as a leading early twentieth-century European social theorist. This collection enables the reader to engage with the full range of Simmel′s dazzling contributions to the study of culture. It opens with Simmel′s basic essays on defining culture, its changes and its crisis. These are followed by more specific explorations of: the culture of face-to-face interactions; spatial and urban culture; leisure culture; the culture of money and commodities; the culture of belief; and the politics of female culture.

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About the Author:

Mike Featherstone is Professor of Communications and Sociology at Nottingham Trent University. CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA : Zygmunt Bauman University of Leeds Henning Bech University of Copenhagen Elizabeth Beck-Gernsheim Universtiy of Erlangen Mary Evans University of Kent at Canterbury David Frisby University of Glasgow Mike Hepworth University of Aberdeen Eva Illouz Tel-Aviv University Maria Esther Maciel Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Michael Richardson SOAS, University of London Laura Rival University of Kent at Canterbury Andrew Travers Somerset Jeffrey Weeks South Bank University Sasha Weitman Tel-Aviv University Sam Whimster London Guildhall University Elizabeth Wilson University of North London Cas Wouters University of Utrecht

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0803986521
• ISBN 13: 9780803986527
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: David Patrick Frisby, Mike Featherstone