Binding: Paperback
Description: Georg Simmel is one of the most original German thinkers of the twentieth century and is considered a founding architect of the modern discipline of sociology. Ranging over fundamental questions of the relationship of self and society his influential writings on money modernity and the metropolis continue to provoke debate today. Fascinated by the relationship between culture society and economic life Simmel took an interest in myriad phenomena of aesthetics and the arts. A friend of writers and artists such as Auguste Rodin Rainer Maria Rilke and Stefan George he wrote dozens of pieces engaging with topics such as the work of Michelangelo Rembrandt and Rodin Japanese art naturalism and symbolism Goethe "art for art's sake" art exhibitions and the aesthetics of the picture frame. This is the first collection to bring together Simmel's finest writing on art and aesthetics and many of the items appear in English in this volume for the first time. The more than forty essays show the protean breadth of Simmel's reflections covering landscape painting portraiture sculpture poetry theater form style and representation. An extensive introduction by Austin Harrington gives an overview of Simmel's themes and elucidates the significance of his work for the many theorists who would be inspired by his ideas. Something of an outsider to the formal academic world of his day Simmel wrote creatively with the flair of an essayist. This expansive collection of translations many of them prepared by the editor preserves the narrative ease of Simmel's prose and will be a vital source for readers with an interest in Simmel's trailblazing ideas in modern European philosophy sociology and cultural theory.
Title: Georg Simmel Essays On Art And Aesthetics
Author(s): Simmel Georg, Austin Harrington
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226621098
Pages: 392 Pages
Publication Date: 9/22/2020
Category: Sociology