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Georg Simmel, 1858-1918

Sociologist and philosopher of the German Historical School at the University of Berlin.  Georg Simmel argued that society is an outcome of interactions of individuals and groups, and so it is the interactions, rather than the individuals or social institutions themselves, that need to be studied.  He is particularly concerned with analyzing how the size of a group affects the nature of the interaction as well as how it impacts social culture and the individual's own psychology.  Simmel's work on money (1900) relates the breakdown of "trust", reciprocity and primitive relations to the emergence of monetary exchange. 

 

  


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Major Works of Georg Simmel

  • Das Wesen der Materie nach Kant's Physischer Monadologie, 1881 [bk]
  • "Zur Psychologie des Geldes", 1889, SchmJGVV p.1251
  • Über sociale Differenzierung: Sociologische und psychologische Untersuchungen, 1890 [bk] [sch] [English title: Social Differentiation].
  • Die Probleme der Geschichtsphilosophie: Eine erkenntnistheoretische Studie, 1892 [bk] [1905 2nd ed; 1907 3rd ed] [sch], [English title: The Problems of the Philosophy of History]
  • Einleitung in die Moralwissenschaft: Eine Kritik der ethischen Grundbegriffe, 1892-93, v.1,v.2 [sch] [English title: Introduction to the Science of Ethics]
  • "The Problem of Sociology", 1895, Pub AAPSS, p.412 [offpr]
  • "Superiority and Subordination as Subject-Matter of Sociology", 1897, American Journal of Sociology, (v.2) Pt. I (p.167), p.2 (p.392)
  • "The Persistence of Social Groups", 1898-99, AJS [1898: v.3: Pt.1 (p.662, av), Pt.2 (p.829)] [1899 v.4: Pt. 3 (p.35)]
  • "Comment les formes sociales se maintennent", 1897, L'Année sociologique (v.1), p.71
  • Philosophie des Geldes, 1900 [bk, av] [1907 2nd ed], [1930 5th ed, av] [sch] [English trans.The Philosophy of Money].
  • "A Chapter in the Philosophy of Value", 1900, American Journal of Sociology (Mar), p.577 [McM]
  • "Die Großstadt und das Geistesleben", 1903, in Die Großstadt. Vorträge und Aufsätze zur Städteausstellung, p.185 [av],[sch] [English trans. "The Metropolis and Mental Life"] [pdf, pdf]
  • "The Number of Members as Determining the Sociological form of the Group", 1902, AJS, Part I (p.1, pdf), Part II (p.158)
  • "The Sociology of Conflict", 1903-04, AJS (v.9) Pt. 1 (p.490, av), Pt.2 (p.672), Pt.3 (p.798)
  • Kant: sechzehn Vorlesungen gehalten an der Berliner Universität, 1904 [bk] [1905 ed]
  • "A Contribution to the Sociology of Religion", 1905, AJS, p.359
  • "The Sociology of Secrecy and Secret Societies", 1906, AJS, p.441
  •  "Zur Soziologie der Armut", 1906, AfSS (v.22), p.1
  • Die Religion, 1906 [av]
  • Kant und Goethe, 1906 [bk]
  • Schopenhauer und Nietzsche: Ein Vortragszyklus, 1907 [bk]
  • Soziologie: Untersuchungen Über die Formen der Vergesellschaftung, 1908 [bk, av] [sch] [English title Sociology: Investigations on the Forms of Sociation] (1)
  • "The Problem of Sociology", 1909, AJS (Nov),  p.289
  • How is Society Possible?, 1910, American Journal of Sociology. [js, av] [McM]
  • Hauptprobleme der Philosophie, 1910 [1927 ed]  [sch]
  • Goethe, 1913 [av] [sch]
  • Das Problem der historischen Zeit, 1916 [av]
  • Rembrandt: Ein kunstphilosophischer Versuch, 1916 [av], [1919 ed, av] [sch]
  • Der Krieg und die geistigen Entscheidungen: Reden und Aufsätze, 1917 [av],[sch]
  • Grundfragen der Soziologie (Individuum und Gesellschaft), 1917 [av] [sch] [English title: Fundamental Questions of Sociology]
  • Lebensanschauung : vier metaphysische Kapitel, 1918 [1922 2nd ed, av]
  • Der Konflikt der modernen Kultur, ein Vortrag, 1918 [av] [1921, av]
  • Philosophische Kultur, 1919 [sch]
  • Zur Philosophie der Kunst: philosophische und kunstphilosophische Aufsätze, 1922 [bk, av]
  • Verschiedene Schriften, 1878-1914.

 


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Resources on Georg Simmel

  • "Simmel's Sociological Concept", by Frederick W. Moore, 1900, Political Economy, Political Science and Sociologiy, p.723
  • "Simmel's Philosophie des Geldes", by Emile Durkheim, 1901,  L'Année sociologique (v.5), p.140
  • "Review of Simmel's Geschichtsphilosophie", by W.B. Pitkin, 1905, J of Philosophy, p.576
  • The German Sociology by Philip P. Jacobs, 1909 [bk]
  • "Review of Simmel's Soziologie" by Ellwood, 1910, Bull AEA, p.63
  • Le Relativisme Philosophique chez Georg Simmel by Albert Mamelet, 1913 [av]
  • George Simmel Online wesbite (Switz), incl. bibliography
  • "Geld als Determinante der Moderne in Georgs Simmels Philosophie des Geldes" by Katja Girschik, 2000 [online]
  • Simmel page at McMaster
  • "Simmels sociale Differenzierung" by W. Boehmert, 1891, SchmJGVV, p.924
  • Wikipedia

 

 
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