Georg Simmel Summary

Simmel, Georg(1858–1918) Georg Simmel, the German philosopher and sociologist, was born in Berlin and resided there except for the last four years of his life. He was educated there, and in 188... Read more

The German sociologist and philosopher Georg Simmel (1858-1918) wrote important studies of urban sociology, social conflict theory, and small-group relationships.Georg Simmel was born on March 1, 1858... Read more

Georg Simmel is one of the more paradoxical figures in twentieth-century thought. Among the founders of sociology as a discipline, and the influential teacher of many of the most important German soci... Read more

In the following essay, which originally appeared in Archiv fir Sozialwissenschaft und Sozialpolitik in 1910, von Wiese offers a consideration of Simmel's method for analyzing social relationsh... Read more

In the following essay, Levine examines Simmel's contributions not only to theories of social relationships but also to culture in general. It is ironic that George Simmel is known to American ... Read more

In the following excerpt, Axelrod examines how Simmel perceived the tension between the individual and society and analyses Simmel's writing style as reflecting his intellectual strengths and l... Read more

In the following essay, Molitierno compares the central ideas of Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism with Simmel's concept of the "tragedy of culture. '" I... Read more

In the following excerpt from his 1914 study Le relativisme philosophique chez Georg Simmel, Mamelet finds that Simmel's work is distinguished from that of his contemporaries by its philosophic... Read more

In the following essay, which was originally published in Frankfurter Zeitung in 1918, Tönnies argues that Simmel is better described as a social psychologist than as a sociologist. After Sch... Read more

In the following essay, originally published in 1948, Heberle finds that Simmel's works are more valuable for exemplifying his methods as a thinker than for any substantive contribution to the ... Read more

In the following essay, Hughes credits Simmel with making the study of sociological phenomena accessible to a general readership. Simmel was, in the original sense of the word, a dilettante, an amateu... Read more