Essays on art and aesthetics /
This book is a first of its kind, an edited collection bringing the finest of Georg Simmel's writing on art and aesthetics together, and bringing many of these essays into English for the first time. Simmel is considered one of the founding fathers of modern sociology but he, like his contempor...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the German. |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2020]
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| Summary: | This book is a first of its kind, an edited collection bringing the finest of Georg Simmel's writing on art and aesthetics together, and bringing many of these essays into English for the first time. Simmel is considered one of the founding fathers of modern sociology but he, like his contemporary Walter Benjamin, wrote about many aspects of life and culture. Simmel's intellectual contributions have long been recognized and he is a keystone in cultural theory of the early twentieth century. The essays in this collection are gathered topically and show the wide range of Simmel's thinking even within the arts, aesthetics, landscape, theater, sculpture, literature and more. Austin Harrington is the brilliant guide behind this substantial volume. He served as editor and translator and also wrote an introduction. Richly informative and thoroughly familiar with Simmel's life and work, Harrington's introduction will itself be an important contribution to the scholarship on Simmel. |
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| Physical Description: | 388 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226620930 022662093X 9780226621098 022662109X |