Simmel on Culture: Selected Writings / Edition 1

by David Patrick Frisby, Mike Featherstone

Overview

This collection enables the reader to engage with the full range of Georg Simmel's dazzling contributions to the study of culture. It opens with his basic essays on defining culture, its changes and its crisis. These are followed by more specific explorations of culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803986510
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	01/23/1998
Series:	Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.75(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Texts
Defining Culture
Culture and Crisis
Culture of Interaction
Spatial and Urban Culture
Fashion, Adornment and Style
Leisure Culture
Money and Commodity Culture
Politics of Culture
Beliefs and Culture