Abstract
The work of Georg Simmel has a rather peculiar history of reception. Even during his life-time and to this day he has been the stranger in the academic community. Not only has he remained a stranger, in the sense that he still is not understood very well, he is also recognized as one of the founding fathers of sociology (with Weber and Durkheim). Simmel is primarily known as a sociologist — at least in the United States. However, he would not have referred to himself as a sociologist, he certainly thought he was a philosopher.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Anderson, Alan Ross and O. K. Moore: Autotelic Folk Models, Sociological Quarterly 1 (1960) 203–216.
Berger, Peter L. and Thomas Luckmann: The Social Construction of Reality, New York: Doubleday, 1967.
DeMey, Marc: The Cognitive Paradigm, Dordrecht: Reidel, 1982.
Frisby, David: Georg Simmel, London and New York: Tavistock Publications, 1984.
Frisby, David and Derek Sayer: Society, London and New York: Tavistock Publications, 1986.
Gardner, Howard: The Mind’s New Science, New York: Basic Books, 1985.
Gassen, Kurt und Michael Landman, Eds.: Buch des Dankes an Georg Simmel, Berlin: Dunckerund Humblot, 1958.
Godel, Kurt : “Über formal unentscheidbare Sätze der Principia Mathematica und verwandter Systeme I”, Monatshefte für Mathematik und Physik 38 (1931) 173–198.
Holzner, Burkart: Reality Construction in Society, Cambridge: Schenkman Publishing Company, 1986.
Hughes, H. Stuart: Consciousness and Society, New York: Vintage Books, 1958.
Kaern, Michael: The Evolution of the Forms of Authority Relations in Germany 1830–1866, University of Pittsburgh, 1976.
Kaern, Michael: Understanding Georg Simmel, Sociological Focus 16(3) (1983) 169–179.
Kaern, Michael: Georg Simmers Sociology of Als-ob, Doctoral Dissertation University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1985.
Lakatos, Imre: Problems in the Philosophy of Mathematics. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1967.
Mannheim, Karl: Ideologie und Utopie. Frankfurt/Main: G. Schulte-Bulmke, 1965.
Moore, Omar Khayyam: Divination — A New Perspective, American Anthropologist (1957) 69–74.
Moore, Omar Khayyam and Alan Ross Anderson: Some Principles for the Design of Clarifying Educational Environments, In: David A. Goslin (Ed.), Handbook of Socialization Theory and Research, Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1969.
O’Neill, John: On Simmel’s Sociological A Priorities, in: Psathas, 1973.
Psathas, George: Phenomenological Sociology, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1973.
Simmel, Georg: “Über eine Beziehungslehre der Selektionstheorie zur Erkenntnistheorie”, Archivßr systematische Philosophie 1 (1896a) 34–45.
Simmel, Georg: Letter to Heinrich Rickert, in: Gassen/Landmann 1896b, p. 92.
Simmel, Georg: Letter to Edmund Husserl, in: Gassen/Landmann 1911, pp. 87–88.
Simmel, Georg: Die historische Formung, Logos 7 (1917a) 1917/18, 113–152, in: Simmel 1967.
Simmel, Georg: Letter to Heinrich Rickert, in: Gassen/Landmann 1917b, pp. 118– 119.
Simmel, Georg: Lebensanschauung, München: Duncker und Humblot, 1918.
Simmel, Georg: Die Probleme der Geschichtsphilosophie, Leipzig: Duncker und Humblot, 1923.
Simmel, Georg: Kant, Leipzig: Duncker und Humblot, 1924.
Simmel, Georg: Die Philosophie des Geldes, Berlin: Duncker und Humblot, 1958a.
Simmel, Georg: Soziologie, Berlin: Duncker und Humblot, 1958b.
Simmel, Georg: Fragmente und Aufsätze, München: Drei Masken, 1967.
Simmel, Georg: Grundfragen der Soziologie, Berlin: Göschen 1001,1970.
Spykman, Nicholas: The Social Theory of Georg Simmel, New York: Atherton Press, 1966.
Stark, Werner: The Sociology of Knowledge, New York: Humanities Press, 1958.
Szabo, Arpad : Greek Dialectic and Euclid’s Axiomatics, in: Lakatos, 1967.
Vaihinger, Hans: Die Philosophie des Als-Ob, Leipzig: Felix Meiner, 1922.
Vaihinger, Hans: The Philosophy of‘As-if’, New York: Barnes and Noble, 1935.
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1990 Kluwer Academic Publishers
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Kaern, M. (1990). The World as Human Construction. In: Kaern, M., Phillips, B.S., Cohen, R.S. (eds) Georg Simmel and Contemporary Sociology. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 119. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0459-0_6
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0459-0_6
Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht
Print ISBN: 978-94-010-6691-4
Online ISBN: 978-94-009-0459-0
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive