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Simmel on Culture: Selected Writings

Simmel on Culture: Selected Writings

Georg Simmel David Frisby Mike Featherstone

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.
Georg Simmel

Georg Simmel

David Frisby

David Frisby. how The Philosophy of Money contributed to Weber's formulation of his 'Protestant Ethic' thesis, and how Problems of the Philosophy of History and other writings by Simmel provide a concept of the intentionality of social action ...
Sociological Impressionism (Routledge Revivals): A ...

Sociological Impressionism (Routledge Revivals): A ...

David Frisby

A Reassessment of Georg Simmel's Social Theory David Frisby ... David Frisby, Glasgow 1981 Further researchfor the new Afterword was made possiblebya grantfromthe German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). For some important new ...
Simmel and Since (Routledge Revivals): Essays on Georg ...

Simmel and Since (Routledge Revivals): Essays on Georg ...

David Frisby

Originally published in 1992, this book, written by one of the world's leading experts on Simmel, provides a fascinating set of insights into a thinker who is fast becoming recognized as the sociologist of modernity; an indispensible ...
Jewish Emancipation Reconsidered: The French and German Models

Jewish Emancipation Reconsidered: The French and German Models

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Freddy Raphael, 'L'Etranger' de Georg Simmel', in Patrick Watier (ed.), Georg Simmel: La sociologie et I'experience du monde moderm; Paris 1 986, pp. 265- 278. Raphael writes, "As a stranger, the Jew participates in different symbolic ...
Siegfried Kracauer

Siegfried Kracauer

Graeme Gilloch

Friebe, Doreen (2004) Der Leser und Literaturkritiker Siegfried Kracauer. Munich: GRIN. Frisby, David (1988) Fragments of Modernity: Theories of Modernity in the Work of Simmel, Kracauer and Benjamin. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Cityscapes of Modernity: Critical Explorations

Cityscapes of Modernity: Critical Explorations

David Frisby

In this new volume, David Frisby provides an original and critical examination of the construction and experience of metropolitan modernity.
Salaam Bollywood: Representations and Interpretations

Salaam Bollywood: Representations and Interpretations

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Roy, Rajdeep. 2011. 'Bollywood and the Mumbai Underworld: Reading Satya in Retrospect', in Partha Pratim Basu and Ipshita Chanda (eds), Locating Cultural Change:Theory, Method, Process, pp. 98–119. New Delhi: Sage. Simmel, Georg.
Bowmen of England

Bowmen of England

Donald Featherstone

Donald Featherstone's study of the English longbow from its early development until the Wars of the Roses is an inspiring and authentic reconstruction in human terms in an age of courage, vitality and endurance.
Georg Lukacs Reconsidered: Critical Essays in Politics, ...

Georg Lukacs Reconsidered: Critical Essays in Politics, ...

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40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 Georg Lukács, Zur Ontologie der Gesellschaftlichen Seins, vol. 2, 50. Georg Lukács, in Theo Pinkus (ed.) Gespräche mit Georg Lukács (Hamburg: Rowohlt Verlag, 1967), 36. I therefore see ...
Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific ...

Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific ...

Georg G. Iggers

From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge Georg G. Iggers. Published by Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT 06459 WWW.We sleyan.edu/Wespress © 1997 by Georg G. Iggers Epilogue © 2005 by Georg G. lggers All ...
Storing, Archiving, Organizing: The Changing Dynamics of ...

Storing, Archiving, Organizing: The Changing Dynamics of ...

Anja-Silvia Goeing

... Burkhard Leemann Burkhard Leemann Burkhard Leemann Burkhard Leemann Felix Trüb n/a Professors of physics Georg Keller, Cas- Georg Keller, Caspar Wolf Georg Keller, Cas- Georg Keller, Caspar Wolf Georg Keller, Georg Keller par ...
50 Fantastic Things to Do with Pre-schoolers: 30-50 Months

50 Fantastic Things to Do with Pre-schoolers: 30-50 Months

Sally Featherstone

30-50 Months Sally Featherstone. Ready for more? Make up a simple 18 Pre- schoolers.
Die Matrikel des Gymnasiums Windsheim, 1678-1887

Die Matrikel des Gymnasiums Windsheim, 1678-1887

Hans Bauer

Georg Wilhelm Speier 1741-1743 Johann Georg Döderlinus 1743-1753 Johann Georg Speier (Bruder von Georg Wilhelm Speier) 1753-1759 Johann Georg Seyboth (Sohn des damaligen Dekans) 1759-1766 M(ag.) Leonhard Friedrich ...
Art Deco: A Mode of Mobility

Art Deco: A Mode of Mobility

Michael Windover

Reproduced in Vancouver's First Century: A City Album, 1860-1985, edited by Anne Kloppenborg, Alice Niwinski, Eve Johnson, with Robert Gruetter. Vancouver and Toronto: Douglas 8t McIntyre, 1985 [rev. ed.], p. 104. Featherstone, Mike ...
The Alienated Mind (Routledge Revivals): The Sociology of ...

The Alienated Mind (Routledge Revivals): The Sociology of ...

David Frisby

This book, first published in 1983 with a second edition in 1992, investigates the emergence of the sociology of knowledge in Germany in the critical period from 1918 to 1933.
Edward Weston: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum

Edward Weston: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum

Brett Abbott

This volume in the In Focus series records remarks by the author, Brett Abbott, along with those of six other participants: William Clift, Amy Conger, David Featherstone, Weston Naef, David Travis, and Jennifer Watts.
Fragments of Modernity (Routledge Revivals): Theories of ...

Fragments of Modernity (Routledge Revivals): Theories of ...

David Frisby

Fragments of Modernity, first published in 1985, provides a critical introduction to the work of three of the most original German thinkers of the early twentieth century.
Society

Society

David Frisby

University of Glasgow. and DEREK SAYER, Lecturer in Sociologv. University of Glasgow For a discipline which has such a long history, and which has attracted some of the most original thinkers. it is remarkable that no basic agreement exists  ...
History of Western Maryland: Being a History of Frederick, ...

History of Western Maryland: Being a History of Frederick, ...

John Thomas Scharf

Robert Smith, John Cellers, Frisby Tilghman, Adam Ott. 1802.— Martin Kershner, Richard Cromwell, Robert Smith, Frisby Tilghman. 1803.— Martin Kershner, Jacob Zeller, Robert Smith, William Yates. 1804. — John Bowles, William Yates,  ...
General Remarks on the Origin of Surnames: Interpretation of ...

General Remarks on the Origin of Surnames: Interpretation of ...

Israel Daniel Rupp

Furkill,* Johannes Bintnagelf Hans Georg Raub, Johan Shuman '1 Georg Mueller Christian Gum, Friedrich Schaeifer, Johannes 1{eep,* Casper Kr'emer, Conrad Walther, Jacob Pretz, Johann Martin Reier, Hans David Ely, ' Matthaeus Schultz,  ...
Healing the Broken Brain: Leading Experts Answer 100 ...

Healing the Broken Brain: Leading Experts Answer 100 ...

Dr. Mike Dow

What’s more, David’s stroke happened when he only 10 years old. This means most of Dr. Mike’s teenage years were spent witnessing what his family was dealing with trying to find the best treatments for David.
Mission Possible

Mission Possible

David E. Wright

... scientist for a major utility company. Today he is known as the "Digital Defender." Mike Lattimore, welcome to Mission Possible! Mike Lattimore ( Lattimore) Thank you very much, Dave. Alexandria Altman. Mike Lattimore 23 Mission Possible!
Georg Lukács’ Marxism Alienation, Dialectics, Revolution: A ...

Georg Lukács’ Marxism Alienation, Dialectics, Revolution: A ...

Victor Zitta

Read, Herbert, “Georg Lukács,” The Tenth Muse, New York: Horizon Press, 1958, pp. 156–162. Révai, Jozsef, “Georg Lukács, Geschichte und Klassenbewusstsein , Berlin: Malik Verlag, 1923,” Grünberg, ed., Archive... Vol. XI, 1925, pp.
Inside Badminton

Inside Badminton

Irving L. Finston

1937 Hamilton Law and Mrs. Del Barkhuff (Cunningham) 1938 Hamilton Law and Mrs. Del Barkhuff (Cunningham) 1939 Richard O. Yeager and Zoe G. Smith ( Yeager) 1940 David G. Freeman and Sara Lee Williams (Skibbins) 1941 David G . ... Pernille Kaa- gaard 1973 Stur Johnsson and Eva Twedberg 1974 Mike Walker and Judianne Kelly 1975 Mike Walker and Judianne Kelly 1976 CLOSED : Mike Walker and Judianne Kelly OPEN: David Eddy and Sue Whetnall, England 1977 ...
Death at Christy Burke's: A Mystery

Death at Christy Burke's: A Mystery

Anne Emery

“You'll have to forgive Mike, Finn. He missed his calling as Sergeant O'Flaherty of the Garda Síochána.” “Ah, now, Brennan,” Mike said. But his fellow priest had a point. Mike was a bit of a crime buff — no, better rephrase that! Mike wasn't in ...
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

MARKETATHEINHARDT 1 - Abgedruckt in A. Roessler. Bildende Künstler, Heft 10, Wien 1911. „Wer ein Bild des Herrn Waldmüller gesehen hat kennt sie alle..." Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller in Paris 2 - Für die österreichische Malerei der ...
Science, Technology And Culture

Science, Technology And Culture

Bell, David

The staff who helped me teach these ideas included Phil Cartledge, Andrew Conroy, Mark Featherstone, Mark Jayne, Barbara Kennedy and John O'Neill, and I owe them all much thanks. For reading and commenting on parts of the book as it ...
...Always a Fan: True Stories from a Life in Science Fiction

...Always a Fan: True Stories from a Life in Science Fiction

Mike Resnick

Ah, but which Mike Resnick? There are many Mike Resnicks—all subsumed in the same person . I have no intention of writing a formal biography; you can find a good one at Mike's website:  ...

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