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The structure of the book |
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2 Method and Key Principles |
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Dialectics without reconciliation |
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15 | (7) |
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22 | (4) |
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26 | (2) |
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28 | (2) |
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3 Sociology of Association |
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Dissolving society into relations |
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Beyond methodological individualism |
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Conclusion: an alternative scalar imaginary |
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45 | (2) |
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4 The Bustle of Modern Life: Fashion and the Modern Metropolis |
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Restless and feverish modern life |
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52 | (2) |
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Fashion as a metaphor for modernity |
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The metropolis and the intensification of nervous life |
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60 | (3) |
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Shock experience and blase attitude |
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63 | (3) |
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66 | (1) |
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67 | (2) |
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Value, desire, and exchange |
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Money as a means of exchange and measure of value |
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Money and modern lifestyle |
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76 | (4) |
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80 | (1) |
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81 | (2) |
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83 | (19) |
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Friendship, love, and the stranger |
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95 | (3) |
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98 | (1) |
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99 | (3) |
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7 Philosophy of Culture and Life |
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104 | (2) |
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The background of Simmel's life-philosophy: Goethe, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Bergson |
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Life as pre-individual flux and dynamic inter-subjectivity |
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Life as more life and more-than-life |
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113 | (3) |
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116 | (1) |
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117 | (2) |
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119 | (3) |
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122 | (1) |
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123 | (4) |
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8 From Fame into Oblivion: Simmel's Early Reception and Influence |
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Evocative lecturer and bestselling author |
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127 | (3) |
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Ambivalent influence on contemporaries in Germany |
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130 | (8) |
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Influence on continental philosophy: the case of Simmel and Heidegger |
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Early reception in France and the broken collaboration with Durkheim |
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Early North American reception |
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147 | (7) |
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154 | (3) |
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9 Renewed Interest: Post-War Reception |
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Canonizing the European classics with the exception of Simmel: the case of Talcott Parsons |
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162 | (3) |
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Diffusion of Simmel's ideas in North American sociology between the 1950s and 1970s |
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German Simmel renaissance |
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174 | (4) |
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178 | (1) |
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10 Resonance with Contemporary Discussions and Debates |
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180 | (9) |
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180 | (5) |
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185 | (2) |
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187 | (2) |
| References |
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| Index |
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