Georg Simmel and German Culture - Unity, Variety and Modern Discontents

Offers a penetrating, contextual interpretation of German philosopher and social thinker Georg Simmel's ideas on modernity and modern civilisation.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Bildung, Kultur, Crisis; 2. Unity in Variety; 3. Unity versus Variety; 4. Unity above Variety; Conclusion.

About the author

Efraim Podoksik is Associate Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and was a Humboldt Fellow at Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt. He specialises in modern intellectual history, focusing on German and British thinkers, including Georg Simmel, Ferdinand Tönnies and Michael Oakeshott. He is the author of In Defence of Modernity: Vision and Philosophy in Michael Oakeshott (2003) and the editor of Doing Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Germany (2019) and The Cambridge Companion to Oakeshott (2012). His articles have appeared in numerous journals, including Journal of the History of Ideas, Modern Intellectual History and New German Critique.

Summary

Through penetrating interpretations of Georg Simmel's reflections on the essence of modernity and modern civilisation, this study places the German philosopher and social thinker's ideas on culture, education and civilisation within the context of intellectual life in Imperial Germany.

Product details

• Authors: Efraim Podoksik, Efraim (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Podoksik, Podoksik Efraim
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2023
• EAN: 9781108964975
• ISBN: 978-1-108-96497-5
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 501 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Ideas in Context
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; History of Ideas, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought