Georg Simmel and German culture : unity, variety and modern discontents / Efraim Podoksik.
| Author/creator |
Podoksik, Efraim author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021. |
| Copyright Notice | ̐u2021 |
| Description | viii, 336 pages ; 24 cm. |
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| Series | Ideas in context Ideas in context. ^A229801 |
| Contents | Introduction -- 1. Bildung, Kultur, crisis -- 2. Unity in variety -- 3. Unity versus variety -- 4. Unity above variety -- Conclusion. |
| Abstract | 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 Rambrandt--back cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-328) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Podoksik, Efraim. Georg Simmel and German culture Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 9781108990783 |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2021000584 |
| ISBN | 9781108845748 |
| ISBN | 1108845746 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781108964975 paperback |
| ISBN | 1108964974 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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