Abstract

The Simmelian Legacy offers a wide and accurate overview of Simmel’s intellectual heirs throughout the 20th century, an excellent account of the whole of Simmel’s oeuvre and, furthermore, it proposes a contemporary rereading of this oeuvre that may awaken the interest of many sociologists and social theorists who are not particularly Simmel scholars. Thus, this book combines three great achievements: tracing Simmel’s legacy in contemporary social thought and sociology (a task which has been only carried out in a fragmented way until now), highlighting Simmel’s major achievements for philosophy and the social sciences, and proposing what elements of Simmel’s thought, which we have been inherited, remain the most interesting to explore as well as work and dialogue with.

Highlights

  • “What sociologists usually take for granted as a cause, Simmel tries to explain as an effect.” (Pyyhtinen, 2018, p. 4)

  • Simmel’s enchanting rhetoric in his writings does not mean that he did not have a solid work methodology or that there are no key principles transversal to his work, as Pyyhtinen argues in his book

  • Pyyhtinen refers himself to “dialectics without reconciliation”. It is a catchy phrase, but Simmel’s well-known “sowohl [...] als auch” has little to do with dialectics in its standard meaning

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Summary

Introduction

“What sociologists usually take for granted as a cause, Simmel tries to explain as an effect.” (Pyyhtinen, 2018, p. 4). Pyyhtinen does offer a standard introduction to, and elaboration on, Simmel’s work and legacy, and his own understanding of this work and legacy as well as his selection of Simmel’s most relevant and long-lasting contributions to sociology, the social sciences and social philosophy.

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