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Teachers College • Columbia University Class Meetings  1:00-2:40 at 308 Lewisohn Hall MSTU5606-MSTU5607 Navigator Course Overview Help on Course Tools Bibliographic Resources Course Participants Class 1/17 1/17 1/24 1/31 2/7 2/14 2/21 2/28 3/7 3/21 3/28 4/4 4/11 4/18 4/25 5/2 9/6 9/6 9/13 9/20 9/27 10/4 10/11 10/18 10/25 11/1 11/8 11/15 11/29 12/6 12/13 12/20 Wiki Work Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1963) Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950) Karl Polanyi (1886-1964) Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) Roland Barthes (1915-1980) Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991) Paulo Freire (1921-1997) Michel Foucault (1926-1984) Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) Jrgen Habermas (1929- ) Fredric Jameson (1934- ) MSTU5606-wrap-up Communication Theory Social thought, mapping a context Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936) Georg Simmel (1858-1918) Max Weber (1864-1920) Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) John Dewey (1859-1952) George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) Max Scheler (1874-1928) Georg Lukacs (1885-1971) Ernst Bloch (1885-1977) Karl Mannheim (1893-1947) Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)

Robbie McClintock and Frank Moretti, Instructors

• Office hours:
  • McClintock (322 Thompson Hall): Wednesdays, 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. and Thursdays, 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. (Schedule slot with Neemisha Martin @ 212 678 3344 or nmartin@tc.edu)
  • Moretti (603 Lewisohn Hall): By appointment (Schedule time with Teresa Gonzales @ 212 854 1692 or teresa@columbia.edu)

Georg Simmel (1858-1918)

• For a brief bio, see A Dictionary of Sociology

Discussion reading

• Georg Simmel. The Philosophy of Money(1900, 1907). 2nd edition. Tom Bottomore and David Frisby, trans., New York: Routledge, 1990. Chapter 6: "The Style of Life," pp. 429-512. Electronic Reserve. $41.95.

Supplementary resources

• Search for JSTOR articles on Georg Simmel.

• Search for JSTOR reviews of books about Georg Simmel.

• Search for JSTOR articles by Georg Simmel.

• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Simmel

• 50 Klassiker der Soziologie on Simmel

• Search Barnes & Noble for books by and about Georg Simmel.

• Georg Simmel via Google Images.

• David Frisby. Georg Simmel. (New York: Routledge, 2002). Frisby provides a concise assessment.

• Gary D. Jaworski. Georg Simmel and the American Prospect. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997). Jaworski's study is mainly interesting for the way it illuminates the development of social thought in the United States.

• Ralph M. Leck. Georg Simmel and Avant-Garde Sociology: The Birth of Modernity, 1880-1920. (New York: Prometheus Books, 2000). Leck makes an ambitious case for Simmel's seminal influence.