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Messages from Georg Simmel /
As a founder of humanist sociology Simmel sent several important messages, identified and explained here as referring to interpretation, evolution, interaction, and alienation. Simmel's ideas on these issues are confronted and compared with those of Karl Marx and Max Weber.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2012.
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| Colección: | Studies in critical social sciences.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Message of Interpretation. Humanities versus Natural Sciences ; The Operation Called Verstehen ; The Controversy about Pragmatism Simmel versus conventional Philosophy ; The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy ; Simmel's Critique of Subjectivist Pragmatism ; Tension between Culture and the Individual.
- The Message of Change: Society Evolves Over Time. Evolution and Darwin's "Theory of Descendency" ; Change as Differentiation and Individualization ; Competition promotes Evolution ; Alternative Theories of Evolution.
- The Message of Interaction: How Reality is Constructed. Sociology as the Study of Interaction ; Society Emerges in Interaction ; Religion as Interaction ; Strangeness as Form of Interaction ; Encounters between Alien Populations ; The Stranger as Innovator.
- The Message of Alienation: Money and Politics. Money as a Paradigm of Cultural Processes ; Evaluation and Alienation ; Construction of Value in Interaction ; Money as a Means of Exchange ; Socialism as Result of a Forming Process ; Socialism on Happiness ; Machine
- Factory
- Government.
- The Main Thrust of the Messages contra Marx and Weber. Simmel's Main Thrust against Marx ; Simmel's main Thrust against Weber.
- Background of the Messages: Intellectual Influences. The Platonic Socrates ; Plato's Eternal Ideas ; Spinoza ; Kant ; Dilthey ; Summary: Statements about Simmel's Method.