Simmel and Beyond (eBook, PDF)

The Contemporary Relevance of Simmel's Thought
Redaktion: Caetano, Pedro; Mendes, Maria Manuela

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together the work of scholars from across Europe, this book shows how Simmel's categories can be used to explore contemporary issues and further shed light on trends characteristic of global modernity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000528749
• Artikelnr.: 63178690

Autorenporträt

Pedro Caetano is an integrated researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center of Social Sciences of the New University of Lisbon, Portugal. Maria Manuela Mendes is Professor in the Instituto de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Universidade de Lisboa and researcher at Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Inclusive Societies 1 Building a Bridge of Justice: Simmel's View to Overcome Otherness Towards an Inclusive Society 2 Real Bridges and Mental Borders: In an Ethnically Mixed Transylvanian Community 3 Roma/Ciganos and the Condition of Internal Strange in Portuguese Society: The Construction of Otherness 4 Social Cohesion through Outside Threats and Multiple Identities: Simmel's Legacy in the Analysis of Social Conflicts Part 2 Innovative Societies 5 Contemporary Insights into Simmel's Approach to Nature 6 Back to Simmel: A New Approach to Third-Party Reproduction 7 Simmel's Formal Sociology and the Risk of Mass Society 8 The Simmelian Digital Metropolis: A Cultural Perspective on the Internet Age Part 3 Reflective Societies 9 Simmelian Concept of Life and Life-Capital in Biocapitalism 10 Spirituality, Science and Dissonances of Modernity - In Dialogue between Simmel and Weber 11 Religiosity and the Law of the Individual: Converts to Islam and the Search for the Authentic Self