The Sociology of Georg Simmel Condition:Good To prevent Ragnarok

To prevent Ragnarok

" — AfterEllen

Alan Shadrake's book

as former New York Times managing editor Gene Roberts has called it

His life is set off course when he sees a woman who is about to jump off a bridge

The Sociology of Georg Simmel Condition:Good To prevent RagnarokThe influence of Georg Simmel on American sociology has been vast, yet this volume is the first systematic translation of his work. This collection of Simmel's most brilliant and engrossing pieces reflects their author's far reaching interests. The reader finds here Simmel's thought on faithfulness and gratitude, secret societies, aristocracy and cquality, social gatherings ("parties"), custom, and morality. Simmel's epochal essay "The Stranger" is