Messages from Georg Simmel
"As founder of the humanist version of sociology, Simmel sent powerful messages that are identified and explained in this book: interpretation - things are often not what they appear to be; change- culture and society evolve over time; interaction - reality is socially constructed; alienation - people define the value of money without taking responsibility for this construction. Simmel sees humans defining objects in interaction as valuable or worthless, but then they refuse to acknowledge havi…
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- Full title :Messages from Georg Simmel / by Horst J. Helle.
Summary
"As founder of the humanist version of sociology, Simmel sent powerful messages that are identified and explained in this book: interpretation - things are often not what they appear to be; change- culture and society evolve over time; interaction - reality is socially constructed; alienation - people define the value of money without taking responsibility for this construction. Simmel sees humans defining objects in interaction as valuable or worthless, but then they refuse to acknowledge having anything to do with the process of value attribution. He is critical in politics as well; Simmel is concerned that socialism is treated as a political movement and not viewed as a potential form of social interaction."--Publisher's website.
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- Publication Date:2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Brill
- Place of Publication:Leiden
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:ix, 201 pages ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789004233683, 9004233687, 9789004235717, 900423571X
- oclc:ocn806981075
- LC Classification:HM585
- Dewey Decimal:301
Table of Contents
The Message of Interpretation. Humanities versus Natural Sciences ; The Operation Called Verstehen ; The Controversy about Pragmatism Simmel versus conventional Philosophy ; The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy ; Simmel's Critique of Subjectivist Pragmatism ; Tension between Culture and the Individual. -- The Message of Change: Society Evolves Over Time. Evolution and Darwin's "Theory of Descendency" ; Change as Differentiation and Individualization ; Competition promotes Evolution ; Alternative Theories of Evolution. -- The Message of Interaction: How Reality is Constructed. Sociology as the Study of Interaction ; Society Emerges in Interaction ; Religion as Interaction ; Strangeness as Form of Interaction ; Encounters between Alien Populations ; The Stranger as Innovator. -- The Message of Alienation: Money and Politics. Money as a Paradigm of Cultural Processes ; Evaluation and Alienation ; Construction of Value in Interaction ; Money as a Means of Exchange ; Socialism as Result of a Forming Process ; Socialism on Happiness ; Machine -- Factory -- Government. -- The Main Thrust of the Messages contra Marx and Weber. Simmel's Main Thrust against Marx ; Simmel's main Thrust agai…
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