Efraim Podoksik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Georg Simmel and German Culture

Unity, Variety and Modern Discontents

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Produktbeschreibung

Through penetrating interpretations of Georg Simmel's reflections on the essence of modernity and modern civilisation, this study places the German philosopher and social thinker's ideas on culture, education and civilisation within the context of intellectual life in Imperial Germany.

Produktdetails

• Ideas in Context
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9781108964975
• ISBN-10: 1108964974
• Artikelnr.: 69074192

Autorenporträt

Efraim Podoksik is Associate Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and was a Humboldt Fellow at Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt. He specialises in modern intellectual history, focusing on German and British thinkers, including Georg Simmel, Ferdinand Tönnies and Michael Oakeshott. He is the author of In Defence of Modernity: Vision and Philosophy in Michael Oakeshott (2003) and the editor of Doing Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Germany (2019) and The Cambridge Companion to Oakeshott (2012). His articles have appeared in numerous journals, including Journal of the History of Ideas, Modern Intellectual History and New German Critique.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Bildung, Kultur, Crisis
2. Unity in Variety
3. Unity versus Variety
4. Unity above Variety
Conclusion.