The Art of the City: Rome, Florence, Venice

Translated by Will Stone
Ebook
On sale Mar 19, 2019 | 96 Pages | 978-1-78227-449-0
A quartet of essays on great European cities from the groundbreaking thinker Georg Simmel

These brilliant essays, from one of Germany's greatest and most influential thinkers, are beautifully written and highly readable portraits of three Italian cities: Rome, Venice and Florence. Simmel saw the city as a work of art in itself, and taken together these pieces act as a powerful suite expounding that notion.

A seminal work of psycho-geography, this collection has never been published together in English before.
Georg Simmel (1858-1918) was one of the first generation of German sociologists and an acquaintance of Max Weber, famous for his explorations of topics including urban life, the philosophy of history and the philosophy of money. The essays contained in The Art of the City are some of his most widely-read work.

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A quartet of essays on great European cities from the groundbreaking thinker Georg Simmel

These brilliant essays, from one of Germany's greatest and most influential thinkers, are beautifully written and highly readable portraits of three Italian cities: Rome, Venice and Florence. Simmel saw the city as a work of art in itself, and taken together these pieces act as a powerful suite expounding that notion.

A seminal work of psycho-geography, this collection has never been published together in English before.

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Georg Simmel (1858-1918) was one of the first generation of German sociologists and an acquaintance of Max Weber, famous for his explorations of topics including urban life, the philosophy of history and the philosophy of money. The essays contained in The Art of the City are some of his most widely-read work.