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Georg Simmel and German Culture
Unity, Variety and Modern Discontents

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  • Date Published: November 2023
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  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9781108964975

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  • The significance of the German philosopher and social thinker, Georg Simmel (1858–1918), is only now being recognised by intellectual historians. Through penetrating readings of Simmel's thought, taken as a series of reflections on the essence of modernity and modern civilisation, Efraim Podoksik places his ideas within the context of intellectual life in Germany, and especially Berlin, under the Kaiserreich. Modernity, characterised by the growing differentiation and fragmentation of culture and society, was a fundamental issue during Simmel's life, underpinning central intellectual debates in Imperial Germany. Simmel's thought is depicted here as an attempt at transforming the complexity of these debates into a coherent worldview that can serve as an effective guide to understanding their main parameters. Paying particular attention to the genealogy and usage of the concepts of Bildung, culture and civilisation in Germany, this study offers contextual analyses of Simmel's philosophies of culture, society, art, religion and the feminine, as well as his interpretations of Dante, Kant, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Goethe and Rembrandt.

    • Offers a unified, systematic understanding of Simmel's mode of thought
    • Provides analysis of Simmel in the context of German intellectual history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
    • Maps central German debates regarding culture and society to present a coherent narrative of the history of the German idea of culture.
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    • Date Published: November 2023
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9781108964975
    • length: 344 pages
    • dimensions: 229 x 152 x 18 mm
    • weight: 0.501kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

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

  • Author

    Efraim Podoksik, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    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.

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