Simmel and 'the Social'

cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Key to Abbreviations: References to Simmel’s Texts......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Introduction......Page 14
On Simmel scholarship......Page 21
Conceptual portraiture......Page 27
The structure of the book......Page 32
The Social in Social Theory?......Page 35
Society and the social......Page 36
Social theory......Page 41
Sociological culture......Page 46
The social - a porous, contested or family resemblance concept?......Page 48
Relationality, Life and Philosophy......Page 51
Theory of relations......Page 52
Relationism and relativism......Page 59
Life-philosophy......Page 62
Simmel’s two notions of ‘life’......Page 67
Life as more-life and more-than-life......Page 71
Immanent transcendence......Page 73
The life of philosophy......Page 75
Thought and boundary......Page 78
Event Dynamics......Page 81
The event......Page 82
Eventalization through reciprocal effects......Page 88
Process and form......Page 92
Living reciprocity vs. autonomous forms......Page 94
Becomings......Page 98
Excluded Thirds, Included: On Being-with......Page 102
Being-with-you......Page 103
How is the social bond possible?......Page 107
Betweenness......Page 110
The third......Page 114
Relation as no-thing......Page 120
Relations and Circulating Objects......Page 123
Bridge and door as metaphysical objects......Page 125
Money......Page 131
Dynamics of subject and object......Page 139
Beyond dualisms......Page 141
Individuality and the Outside of Relations......Page 146
Quantitative and qualitative individualism......Page 148
The in-dividual......Page 153
The self-identity of the living being......Page 157
From types of individuals to individuated type......Page 161
Individuality of owness......Page 165
Entanglement of life in death and death in life......Page 167
A death that is owned......Page 171
Conclusion: Simmel and Contemporary Social Theory......Page 7
Simmel and Latour in comparison......Page 178
Stabilization, objects and performativity......Page 183
Life/plasma......Page 187
Notes......Page 190
References......Page 199
Glossary......Page 211
Index......Page 218