Publisher's Synopsis
This work by the late Nicholas Spykman offers the reader a comprehensive synopsis of both Simmel's social theory and the essentials of his formal sociology. Drawing on passages from numerous works by Simmel, the author sets out Simmel's conception of the relationship between the different fields of theoretic inquiry into socio-historical actuality; explains his major contribution to the methodology of the social sciences; and finally illustrates Simmel's conception of sociology as a science. The book also contains summaries of the as yet untranslated chapters of Simmel's work, "Sociologie" (1908).
