The social Theory of Georg Simmel

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Identifikator:: 1024612627

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-166627

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Spykman, Nicholas J. http://d-nb.info/gnd/124229867

Title:: The social Theory of Georg Simmel

Place of publication:: Chicago

Publisher:: Univ. of Chicago Press.

Year of publication:: 1925

Scope:: XXIX, 297 S

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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.en- er- : of me the Na- of has )1SO- clal self had ex- the ism ‘eby ted. fter this tion een his and o be rk is that f his nent posi- logi- ful- 1s a PREFACE XY whole, not from any single chapter. The different social sciences may develop a special technique, but they must follow a common method and be conscious of their mutual relations. An understanding of these relations can only be obtained by viewing them in their totality, not by merely inquiring into the method and presuppositions of a single social science. It is for that reason that the material of this study, although primarily orientated toward the methodo- logical problems of sociology, has been so organized as to afford a bird’s-eye view of these relations and thereby to throw light on the central problem of all social methodol- ogy. This study deals only with a restricted field of Sim- mel’s work. His publications cover a wide range of sub- jects, many of which are not immediately related to our problem. He was primarily a philosopher, not in the sense of a builder of metaphysical systems, but in the sense of an interpreter of life. The works of his second period are an interpretation of Western civilization and modern cul- ture. In that capacity he also deserves a wider attention in English-speaking countries than has been accorded him. But the scope of this study does not permit an attempt at a comprehensive view of Simmel’s interpretation of our modern world. It is orientated toward his philosophical contributions in the more narrow sense of the term, not toward his metaphysical contributions. Its aim is to give his fundamental contributions to the methodology of the different fields of theoretic inquiry regarding socio-his- torical phenomena. In his sociological works, as in his other contributions, Simmel’s analytic tendency has hardly been counter- balanced by a corresponding synthetic tendency. This characteristic, together with the fact that most of it was first published in the form of articles, gives his work a

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