Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the problem of fitting in and standing out / Excursus on social evolution: Simmel without Spencer and Freud
  • The price of freedom / Excursus on social quantities: Simmel before Durkheim and Tarde
  • Functional values and personal worth / Excursus on cultural capitalism: Simmel with Weber and Sombart
  • The lifestyles of fast capitalism / Excursus on class conflict: Simmel beneath Marx and Engels
  • Privacy and secrecy in mass society / Excursus on maternal feminism: Simmel between Marianne Weber and Gilman
  • The cosmopolitan worldview and urban fashion / Excursus on sociological vitalism: Simmel through Bergson and Mannheim
  • The propertied and the poor person in the big city / Excursus on race relations, strangers, and other marginals: Simmel behind Park and Du Bois
  • The ruin and renewal of life / Excursus on sustainability and surplus: Simmel alongside Veblen and Mauss
  • Adventures in space and time / Excursus on spatiality and temporality: Simmel after Martineau and Tocqueville
  • Conclusion: the tragedy of individuality / Excursus on identity and difference: Simmel across Mead and Husserl.