Individual and society in twentieth- and twenty-first century views of life

Michael Weinstein

Deena Weinstein

pp. 183-197

in: Cécile Rol, Christian Papilloud (eds), Soziologie als Möglichkeit, Wiesbaden, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2009

Abstract

Standing on the cusp between modern and modernist discourses, and one of the most comprehensive thinkers of his times, Georg Simmel also anticipated postmodern discourses through his identification and analysis of social and cultural forms and tendencies that he observed that would reach fuller development in our own era.

Cited authors

Simmel Georg