Book Description
The book opens with Simmel's most 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.
The reader will gain an unparalleled introduction to Simmel on culture through this stimulating collection which includes a large number of previously untranslated essays together with others that are not readily available. Simmel on Culture not only provides a missing piece in the history of cultural study, it also reveals anew way of studying culture and will be essential reading for students of cultural studies and sociology.
