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Georg Simmel: Biographic Information
ex: Coser, Lewis A. Masters of Sociological Thought: Ideas in Historical and Social Context. Second edition.
Georg simmel sociology theory
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977.
Georg Simmel was born on March 1, 1858, in the very heart of Berlin, the corner of Leipzigerstrasse and Friedrichstrasse. This was a curious birthplace--it would correspond to Times Square in New York--but it seems symbolically fitting for a man who throughout his life lived in the intersection of many movements, intensely affected by the cross-currents of intellectual traffic and by a multiplicity of moral directions.
Simmel was a modern urban man, without roots in traditional folk culture.
Upon reading Simmel's first book, F. Toennies wrote to a friend: "The book is shrewd but it has the flavor of the metropolis." Like "the stranger" he described in his brilliant essay of the same name, he was near and far at the same time, a "potential wanderer; although he [had] not mov