Georg Simmel in Translation

Interdisciplinary Border Crossings in Culture and Modernity

Edited By: David D. Kim

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Though his name was forgotten, Georg Simmel’s writings on modernity left a significant mark. In this collection, scholars trace his influence through time and space, from Imperial Berlin to contemporary Singapore, and in the works of other intellectuals.

Though Georg Simmel considered himself a philosopher, his intellectual influence went well beyond the confines of one academic discipline at the turn of the last…

Though Georg Simmel considered himself a philosopher, his intellectual influence went well beyond the confines of one academic discipline at the turn of the last century. His writings on money, modernity, and the metropolis, as well as the artwork, female culture, and psychologism, left a significant mark on contemporaries like Walter Benjamin, Wilhelm Worringer, and Max Weber. Nevertheless, his name soon disappeared from public memory and scholarly discourse.

In Georg Simmel in Translation, scholars from the Humanities and the Social Sciences cut through time and space to illustrate ways in which Simmel was, and still is, carried from one context to another. From Imperial Berlin to contemporary Singapore, they trace Simmel’s transgression of disciplinary boundaries in culture and modernity. The collected essays also explore the transformed presence of his scholarship in the works of more well-known artists, writers, and intellectuals between the second half of the nineteenth century and today.

David D. Kim is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. His research interests include colonial histories and postcolonialism, fin-de-siècle Vienna, translation studies, and literary theory. He is currently writing his dissertation on the concept of translation in German colonial and postcolonial experiences.