Table of Contents

Prologue: Modernist Philosophy and the History of Theory
1. Introduction: Simmel's Modernity
2. Simmel as Classic: Representation and the Rhetoric of Disciplinarity
3. Memory/Legacy: Georg Simmel as (Mostly) Forgotten Founding Father
4. Style as Substance: Simmel's Modernism and the Disciplinary Imaginary
5. Performing Relativity: Money and Modernist Philosophy
6. Disciplining the Philosophy of Money
7. Thinking Liminality, Rethinking Disciplinarity
8. The Stranger and the Sociological Imagination
Epilogue: Georg Simmel as Modernist Philosopher

About the Author

Elizabeth S. Goodstein is Professor of Liberal Arts at Emory University and the author of the award-winning Experience without Qualities: Boredom and Modernity (Stanford, 2005).

Reviews

"The most important study of philosopher George Simmel to ever appear in English, this book does more than contribute to our understanding of a major modern thinker: it offers a fascinating analysis of knowledge formation at the turn of the twentieth century and is a crucial addition to our understanding of Western modernity itself." —Michael Jennings, Princeton University "Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary Imaginary is remarkable for its breadth of knowledge, its philosophical discernment, and its sophisticated approach to the complexity of both Simmel's work and our own contemporary existence." —Patrice Petro, UC Santa Barbara. "Anyone interested in understanding the character – and especially the fate – of Simmel's thought would do well to consult Elizabeth Goodstein's Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary Imaginary."—Paul Reitter, Times Literary Supplement "Goodstein has written a truly important book on Simmel and his place on the margins of the discipline of sociology, but beyond this I think she has also produced an equally important work on the need to think differently in a world defined by hyper-connectivity and what Simmel called infinite reciprocity."—Mark Featherstone, Theory, Culture and Society