Georg Simmel

The Art of the City

Notify me when the book’s added
To read this book, upload an EPUB or FB2 file to Bookmate. How do I upload a book?
A quartet of essays on great European cities from the groundbreaking thinker Georg Simmel
’Vnice possesses the ambiguous beauty of adventure, floating rootlessly through life, like a torn flower borne on the sea’
Georg Simmel was a brilliant, groundbreaking thinker, whose wide-ranging lectures held audiences spellbound in turn-of-the-century Berlin and throughout Europe. The theories of this maverick 'wandering-priest' left their mark on a whole generation of philosophers, poets and sociologists, including Heidegger and Rilke.
The quartet of essays contained in this book includes dazzling portraits of Italy's iconic cities of art and history, as well as Simmel's hugely influential 'The Metropolis and the Life of the Spirit', one of the most important analyses of urban life and the alienation of the individual ever written.
Georg Simmel (1858–1918) was one of the first generation of German sociologists and an acquaintance of Max Weber. His study of philosophy, his wide reading in history and the sciences and his astute criticism meant Simmel became a renowned intellectual in his lifetime. He was known for his illuminating lectures and rare gifts as a speaker, exploring topics including the effect of the modern metropolis on human psychology, the philosophy of history and the philosophy of money.
This book is currently unavailable
70 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2018
Publication year
2018
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Translator
Will Stone
Have you already read it? How did you like it?
👍👎

Quotes

  • Karina Petersenhas quoted3 years ago
    ass culture and mass society.
  • Karina Petersenhas quoted3 years ago
    Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer and Walter Benjamin
  • Karina Petersenhas quoted3 years ago
    tributaries fed the powerful estuarine forces of the Frankfurt School of neo-Marxist sociology
fb2epub
Drag & drop your files (not more than 5 at once)