The Routledge International Handbook of Simmel Studies (Paperback)

General introduction Gregor Fitzi PART I: Biography 1. Simmel’s life: an unexplored continent Gregor Fitzi PART II: Sociology 2. Simmel’s resonance with contemporary sociological debates Olli Pyyhtinen 3. Relations, forms, and the representation of the social life: Georg Simmel and the challenge of relational sociology as Lebenssoziologie Davide Ruggieri 4. Boundaries as relations: Georg Simmel’s relational theory of boundaries Natalia Canto-Mila 5. The actuality of a sociological research programme Gregor Fitzi PART III: Philosophy 6. Relativism: a theoretical and practical philosophical programme Matthieu Amat 7. The art of complicating things Denis Thouard 8. Georg Simmel, Hans Blumenberg, and philosophical anthropology Andrea Borsari 9. Simmel’s ‘late life metaphysics’ Gregor Fitzi PART IV: Art and aesthetics 10. Art and knowledge in Simmel’s thought and writing style Claudia Portioli 11. Social aesthetics Barbara Carnevali and Andrea Pinotti 12. Philosophy of art Ingo Meyer 13. Framing, painting, seeing: Simmel’s Rembrandt and the sense of modernity Thomas Kemple PART V: Literature and theatre 14. Literary practice and immanent literary theory Monika Tokarzewska 15. The Goethean heritage in Simmel’s work Paola Giacomoni 16. Simmel: the actor and his roles Francois Thomas PART VI: Essayism and critical theory 17. Georg Simmel and the ‘newspaper sociology’ of the 1920s and 1930s Barbara Theriault 18. Georg Simmel and critical theory Vincenzo Mele PART VII: Topics of debate 19. Freedom: an open debate Monica Martinelli 20. Georg Simmel’s theory of religion Volkhard Krech 21. Georg Simmel: war, nation, and Europe Patrick Watier 22. Simmel’s cosmopolitanism Austin Harrington 23. Economic pathologies of life Arthur Bueno PART VIII: Lines of reception 24. Simmel’s American legacy revisited Milos Brocic and Daniel Silver 25. Goffman, Schutz, and the ‘secret of the other’: on the American sociological reception of Simmel’s ‘das Geheimnis des Anderen’ Gary D. Jaworski 26. Traces of Simmel in Latin America: modernity, nation, and memory Esteban Vernik