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Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary Imaginary - by Elizabeth S Goodstein (Hardcover)

Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary Imaginary - by  Elizabeth S Goodstein (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Integrating intellectual biography, philosophical interpretation, and a critical examination of the history of academic disciplines, this book restores philosopher Georg Simmel to his rightful place as a major figure and challenges the frameworks through which his contributions to modern thought have been at once remembered and forgotten<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Integrating intellectual biography, philosophical interpretation, and a critical examination of the history of academic disciplines, this book restores philosopher Georg Simmel to his rightful place as a major figure and challenges the frameworks through which his contributions to modern thought have been at once remembered and forgotten<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary Imaginary</i> is remarkable for its breadth of knowledge, its philosophical discernment, and its sophisticated approach to the complexity of both Simmel's work and our own contemporary existence.--Patrice Petro "UC Santa Barbara."<br><br>Anyone interested in understanding the character - and especially the fate - of Simmel's thought would do well to consult Elizabeth Goodstein's <i>Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary Imaginary</i>.--Paul Reitter "<i>Times Literary Supplement</i>"<br><br>Goodstein has written a truly important book on Simmel and his place on the margins of the discipline of sociology, but beyond this I think she has also produced an equally important work on the need to think differently in a world defined by hyper-connectivity and what Simmel called infinite reciprocity.--Mark Featherstone "<i>Theory, Culture and Society</i>"<br><br>The most important study of philosopher George Simmel to ever appear in English, this book does more than contribute to our understanding of a major modern thinker: it offers a fascinating analysis of knowledge formation at the turn of the twentieth century and is a crucial addition to our understanding of Western modernity itself.--Michael Jennings "Princeton University"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Elizabeth S. Goodstein</b> is Professor of Liberal Arts at Emory University and the author of the award-winning <i>Experience without Qualities: Boredom and Modernity</i> (Stanford, 2005).

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