Simmel and Modernity

Author: Chen Rongnü
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: This book studies Georg Simmel as a cultural philosopher, attempting to holistically grasp the threads of his thought. It uses specific case studies to interpret different aspects of Simmel's ideas, outlining the basic contours of his philosophical framework. At the same time, it explores various dimensions of Simmel's thought in the context of modernity, highlighting the unique modernity theory and philosophical aspirations of Simmel's cultural-modernity ideas, which essentially refine the structural framework of classical sociological theory.