With a new foreword by Charles Lemert . 'Its greatness...lies in ceaseless and varied use of the money form to unearth and conceptually reveal incommensurabilities of all kinds, in social reality fully as much as in thought itself.' - Fredric Jameson . In The Philosophy of Money, Georg Simmel puts money on the couch. He provides us with a classic analysis of the social, psychological and philosophical aspects of the money economy, full of brilliant insights into the forms that social relationships take. He analyzes the relationships of money to exchange, human personality, the position of women, and individual freedom. Simmel also offers us prophetic insights into the consequences of the modern money economy and the division of labour, in particular the processes of alienation and reification in work and urban life. . An immense and profound piece of work it demands to be read today and for years to come as a stunning account of the meaning, use and culture of money.

《现代性和距离》选取了齐美尔思想中的三个关键词：现代性、碎片和距离来对齐美尔的美学思想展开探讨。《现代性和距离》偏重于美学和文化社会学的研究，从美学的层面来讨论作为社会学家的齐美尔，审美现代性的视域和美学的维度是《现代性和距离》贯穿始终的主线。而《现代性和距离》的最终目的也是以齐美尔的现代性理论为背景，以“距离”观念为聚焦点，进而从文化社会学、美学、艺术以及现代日常生活的审美等层面窥探齐美尔的美学与艺术思想。

"Of those who created the intellectual capital used to launch the enterprise of professional sociology, Georg Simmel was perhaps the most original and fecund. In search of a subject matter for sociology that would distinguish it from all other social sciences and humanistic disciplines, he charted a new field for discovery and proceeded to explore a world of novel topics in works that have guided and anticipated the thinking of generations of sociologists. Such distinctive concepts of contemporary sociology as social distance, marginality, urbanism as a way of life, role-playing, social behavior as exchange, conflict as an integrating process, dyadic encounter, circular interaction, reference groups as perspectives, and sociological ambivalence embody ideas which Simmel adumbrated more than six decades ago."--Donald N. Levine Half of the material included in this edition of Simmel's writings represents new translations. This includes Simmel's important, lengthy, and previously untranslated "Group Expansion and Development of Individuality," as well as three selections from his most neglected work, "Philosophy of Money"; in addition, the introduction to "Probleme der Geschichtsphilosophie," chapter one of the "Lebensanschauung," and three essays are translated for the first time.

The German sociologist and philosopher Georg Simmel (1858-1918) is recognized as a leading early twentieth-century European social theorist. This collection enables the reader to engage with the full range of Simmel's dazzling contributions to the study of culture. It opens with Simmel's basic essays on defining culture, its changes and its crisis. These are followed by more specific explorations of: the culture of face-to-face interactions; spatial and urban culture; leisure culture; the culture of money and commodities; the culture of belief; and the politics of female culture.

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盖奥尔格·西美尔(Georg Simmel,1858-1918年)是德国的社会学家和哲学家。《社会学——关于社会化形式的研究》和《社会学的基本问题——个人与社会》是西美尔的社会学代表作。从篇幅看，前者在德国的社会学界也往往称为他的《大社会学》，后者为他的《小社会学》。从写作风格和论述内容看，前者属于纯粹社会学或形式社会学，后者属于哲学社会学。西美尔是生存哲学或“人生哲学”的追随者。他在这两部著作里都深刻地分析生存的基木特征，阐述超出人生自身范围的生存的基本特点。在《大社会学》这部著作里，他深刻地论述和研究社会化的形式和个人与社会的相互关系。西美尔的形式社会学集中地表现在这部著作里。