1st Edition
Simmel and Beyond The Contemporary Relevance of Simmel’s Thought
Part 1 Inclusive Societies
1 Building a Bridge of Justice: Simmel’s View to Overcome Otherness Towards an Inclusive Society
Pedro Caetano and Maria Manuela Mendes
2 Real Bridges and Mental Borders: In an Ethnically Mixed Transylvanian Community
Stefánia Toma
3 Roma/Ciganos and the Condition of Internal Strange in Portuguese Society: The Construction of Otherness
Maria Manuela Mendes and Olga Magano
4 Social Cohesion through Outside Threats and Multiple Identities: Simmel’s Legacy in the Analysis of Social Conflicts
Michael Nollert
Part 2 Innovative Societies
5 Contemporary Insights into Simmel’s Approach to Nature
Philippe Boudes
6 Back to Simmel: A New Approach to Third-Party Reproduction
Catarina Delaunay
7 Simmel’s Formal Sociology and the Risk of Mass Society
Martti Siisiainen
8 The Simmelian Digital Metropolis: A Cultural Perspective on the Internet Age
Jacob Hardy
Part 3 Reflective Societies
9 Simmelian Concept of Life and Life-Capital in Biocapitalism
Barbara Markowska-Marczak
10 Spirituality, Science and Dissonances of Modernity – In Dialogue between Simmel and Weber
Michal Warchala
11 Religiosity and the Law of the Individual: Converts to Islam and the Search for the Authentic Self
Thomas Sealy
Biography
Pedro Caetano is an integrated researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center of Social Sciences of the New University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Maria Manuela Mendes is Professor in the Instituto de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Universidade de Lisboa and researcher at Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Iscte—Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal.
