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This chapter sets out to locate Simmel’s sociological thinking more fully in its wider historical, social, cultural and philosophical context. This coverage is not aimed at being exhaustive but is focused on providing a background to our consideration of his method.
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© 2013 Henry Schermer and David Jary
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Schermer, H., Jary, D. (2013). Simmel’s Life and the Context of His Work. In: Form and Dialectic in Georg Simmel’s Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137276025_3
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