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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785957303321

Autore

Helle Horst Jürgen

Titolo

Messages from Georg Simmel [[electronic resource] /] / by Horst J. Helle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2012

ISBN

1-283-63818-5

90-04-23571-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 p.)

Collana

Studies in critical social sciences ; ; vol. 49

Disciplina

301

Soggetti

Sociology - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Horst J. Helle -- The Message of Interpretation / Horst J. Helle -- The Message of Change: Society Evolves Over Time / Horst J. Helle -- The Message of Interaction: How Reality is Constructed / Horst J. Helle -- The Message of Alienation: Money and Politics / Horst J. Helle -- The Main Thrust of the Messages contra Marx and Weber / Horst J. Helle -- Background of the Messages: Intellectual Influences / Horst J. Helle -- Appendix 1: Biography of Georg Simmel / Horst J. Helle -- Appendix 2: Simmel’s Autobiographical Fragment / Horst J. Helle -- References / Horst J. Helle -- Index / Horst J. Helle.

Sommario/riassunto

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.