Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary Imaginary by Goodstein, Elizabeth S. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Copyright Title Page Contents Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Prologue: Modernist Philosophy and the History of Theory Part I: Cold Cash and the Modern Classic

1 . Introduction: Simmel’s Modernity

Marginality at the Center: Georg Simmel in Berlin Modern Culture and the Problem of Disciplinarity Disciplining Simmel Simmel’s Philosophical Modernism and the History of Theory

2. Simmel as Classic: Representation and the Rhetoric of Disciplinarity

A Modern Classic? Simmel’s Self-(Re)Presentation Simmel’s “Formalism” Form in Context: Theorizing Culture Modernist Identity and the Self-Overcoming of Relativism

3. Memory/Legacy: Georg Simmel as (Mostly) Forgotten Founding Father

Simmel in America: The Disciplinary (Pre-)History Discipline/History: Theorizing Misrecognition Rereading Misreading: “Simmel” in America Styles of Thought and the Rhetoric of Disciplinarity Disciplining Culture

Part II: Philosophy of Money as Modernist Philosophy

Reading Simmel’s Philosophy of Money Simmel’s Philosophical Modernism Rethinking Thinking: Culture, Relativism, and das Geistesleben

5. Performing Relativity: Money and Modernist Philosophy

From a Psychology to a Philosophy of Money Money in Action: Value, Life, Form Money, Representation, and “the Cultural Process” Money and Metaphysics: Relativism as Modernist Method

6. Disciplining the Philosophy of Money

Part III: The Case of Simmel

7. Thinking Liminality, Rethinking Disciplinarity

8. The Stranger and the Sociological Imagination

Reading Simmel: Appropriation by Fragments Rereading Rereading: Estranging the Stranger Becoming Social, Figuring Strangeness Disciplinarity and the Cultural Process

Epilogue: Georg Simmel as Modernist Philosopher

Simmel in Strasbourg

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