Simmel and Beyond

Bringing together the work of scholars from across Europe, this book shows how Simmel's categories can be used to explore contemporary issues and further shed light on trends characteristic of global modernity.

Autorentext

Pedro Caetano is an integrated researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center of Social Sciences of the New University of Lisbon, Portugal. Maria Manuela Mendes is Professor in the Instituto de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Universidade de Lisboa and researcher at Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal.

Inhalt

Part 1 Inclusive Societies

1 Building a Bridge of Justice: Simmel's View to Overcome Otherness Towards an Inclusive Society * Pedro Caetano and Maria Manuela Mendes

• 2 Real Bridges and Mental Borders: In an Ethnically Mixed Transylvanian Community * Stefánia Toma
• 3 Roma/Ciganos and the Condition of Internal Strange in Portuguese Society: The Construction of Otherness * Maria Manuela Mendes and Olga Magano
• 4 Social Cohesion through Outside Threats and Multiple Identities: Simmel's Legacy in the Analysis of Social Conflicts * Michael Nollert
• Part 2 Innovative Societies 5 Contemporary Insights into Simmel's Approach to Nature * Philippe Boudes
• 6 Back to Simmel: A New Approach to Third-Party Reproduction * Catarina Delaunay
• Part 3 Reflective Societies 7 Simmel's Formal Sociology and the Risk of Mass Society * Martti Siisiainen
• 8 The Simmelian Digital Metropolis: A Cultural Perspective on the Internet Age * Jacob Hardy
• 9 Simmelian Concept of Life and Life-Capital in Biocapitalism * Barbara Markowska-Marczak
• 10 Spirituality, Science and Dissonances of Modernity - In Dialogue between Simmel and Weber * Michal Warchala
• 11 Religiosity and the Law of the Individual: Converts to Islam and the Search for the Authentic Self * Thomas Sealy *