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Postmodern(ized) Simmel
Originally published in 1993, this book opens a new and major line of interpretation, showing that Georg Simmel is the essential sociologist of the postmodern age. The authors trace the important contributions that Simmels writings can make to current studies of intellectual ethics, textual methodology, sociological theory, philosophy of history and cultural theory.
Postmodern(ized) Simmel provides an ambitious, adventurous and at times audacious analysis that situates Simmel at the centre of current debates over modernity and its consequences. Original and provocative. Barry Smart
Postmodern(ized) Simmel
Deena Weinstein
and
Michael A. Weinstein
First published in 1993
by Routledge
This edition first published in 2011 by Routledge
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1993 Deena Weinstein and Michael A. Weinstein
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Postmodern(ized) Simmel
Working on multiple levels of analysis the authors present a reading of Simmel which shows how his writings can have a constituent role in current postmodernist discourses. By staging encounters between Simmel and such culture theorists and critics as Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Claude Lvi-Strauss and Friedrich Nietzsche, the authors reveal the many ways in which modernists can make the transition to postmodernism or at least understand that process. Postmodern(ized) Simmel shows readers how they might postmodernize themselves.
The book addresses the uses of Simmels writings as postmodern discourses in the areas of intellectual ethics, textual methodology, sociological theory, philosophy of history and cultural theory. It is the first sustained attempt to show the significance of Simmels writings for postmodernism and it challenges the prevailing view that Simmel was a sociological impressionist. It provides fresh ideas on postmodernity and a remarkable new interpretation of one of the major figures in the development of sociology.
Deena Weinstein is Professor of Sociology, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois; Michael A. Weinstein is Professor of Political Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
Postmodern(ized) Simmel
Deena Weinstein and
Michael A. Weinstein
First published 1993
by Routledge
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
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1993 Deena Weinstein and Michael A. Weinstein
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Weinstein, Deena. Postmodern(ized) Simmel/Deena and Michael Weinstein
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Simmel, Georg, 18581918. 2. Sociology Germany History. 3. Postmodernism Social aspects. I. Weinstein, Michael A. II. Title.
HM22.G3S525 1993 | 9239589 |
301.0943 dc20 | CIP |
ISBN 0415082692
0415082706 (pbk)
We thank our editor Chris Rojek for his aid in bringing this book to publication and for his sympathy with the project. We thank our desk editor Christina Tebbit for expertly steering the work into print.
We thank Barry Smart for his very careful and helpful reading of the manuscript. We thank Donald Levine for his encouragement and for his cogent and constructive criticism.
We acknowledge Helmut Loiskandl and Michael Kaern for the fine conversations that we have had with them about Simmel over the years.
We thank those who have made contributions to the Simmel literature. Simmel studies is a polycentric web of interpretive initiatives, adding new centres as new issues arise in human/culture studies: a congenial place for Postmodern(ized) Simmel.
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