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  • The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies

    by Georg Simmel ...
    "That we shall know with whom we have to do, is the first precondition of having anything to do with another. The customary reciprocal presentation, in the case of any somewhat protracted conversation, or in the case of contact upon the same social plane, although at first sight an empty form, is an excellent symbol of that reciprocal apprehension which is the presumption of every social ... Read more

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  • The Philosophy of Money

    by Georg Simmel ...
    '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 ... Read more

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  • The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies

    by Georg Simmel ...
    "That we shall know with whom we have to do, is the first precondition of having anything to do with another. The customary reciprocal presentation, in the case of any somewhat protracted conversation, or in the case of contact upon the same social plane, although at first sight an empty form, is an excellent symbol of that reciprocal apprehension which is the presumption of every social ... Read more

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  • Superiority and Subordination as Subject-Matter of Sociology

    by Georg Simmel ...
    I understand the task of sociology to be description and determination of the historico-psychological origin of those forms in which interactions take place between human beings. The totality of these interactions, springing from the most diverse impulses, directed toward the most diverse objects, and aiming at the most diverse ends, constitutes “society.” Those different contents in connection ... Read more

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  • The Art of the City: Rome, Florence, Venice

    by Georg Simmel ...
    Translated by Will Stone ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    A quartet of essays on great European cities from the groundbreaking thinker Georg SimmelThese brilliant essays, from one of Germany's greatest and most influential thinkers, are beautifully written and highly readable portraits of three Italian cities: Rome, Venice and Florence. Simmel saw the city as a work of art in itself, and taken together these pieces act as a powerful suite expounding that ... Read more

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  • Georg Simmel

    Essays on Art and Aesthetics

    by Georg Simmel ...
    "At long last a collection in English that does justice to the breadth, depth, and contemporary significance of Simmel's writings on the arts!" —Elizabeth Goodstein, Emory UniversityGeorg Simmel, one of the most original German thinkers of the twentieth century, is a founding architect of modern sociology. His writings on money, modernity, and the metropolis address fundamental questions of the ... Read more

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  • Conflict And The Web Of Group Affiliations

    by George Simmel ...
    Two major essays on the dynamics of social organization by the great German philosopher and social theorist Georg Simmel. ... Read more

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  • The Philosophy of Money

    by Georg Simmel ...
    Translated by Tom Bottomore ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    With a new foreword by Charles Lemert'Its greatness...lies in ceaseless and varied use of the money form to unearth and conceptually reveal incommensurabilities of all kinds, in social reality fully as much as in thought itself.' - Fredric JamesonIn The Philosophy of Money, Georg Simmel puts money on the couch. He provides us with a classic analysis of the social, psychological and philosophical ... Read more

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  • Superiority and Subordination as Subject-Matter of Sociology (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Authority, Obedience, and the Social Dynamics of Hierarchy

    by Georg Simmel, Keira Dovewick ...
    Translated by Albion Woodbury Small ...
    In Superiority and Subordination as Subject-Matter of Sociology, Georg Simmel examines domination not merely as a political or economic fact, but as a recurring form of social interaction. With his characteristic precision, he distinguishes the many configurations through which command, obedience, authority, dependence, and resistance organize collective life. The work belongs to Simmel's formal ... Read more

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  • Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies

    by Georg Simmel ...
    All relationships of people to each other rest, as a matter of course, upon the precondition that they know something about each other. The merchant knows that his correspondent wants to buy at the lowest price and to sell at the highest price. The teacher knows that he may credit to the pupil a certain quality and quantity of information. Within each social stratum the individual knows ... Read more

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  • Superiority and Subordination as Subject-Matter of Sociology

    by Georg Simmel ...
    Every social occurrence as such, consists of an interaction between individuals. In other words, each individual is at the same time an active and a passive agent in a transaction. In case of superiority and inferiority, however, the relation assumes the appearance of a one-sided operation; the one party appears to exert, while the other seems merely to receive an influence. Such, however, is not ... Read more

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  • The Persistence of Social Groups

    by Georg Simmel ...
    It is the doubtful advantage of incipient sciences that they must temporarily furnish refuge for all sorts of vagrant problems. The boundaries of new sciences are necessarily indefinite and indefensible. They are thus open to all the homeless. They therefore gather by degrees a miscellaneous content which cannot be managed. Then the process of limitation begins. The immediate effect is ... Read more

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