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Seminar reading

Friedrich Schiller

• Briefe über die ästhetische Erziehung, Brief 6 (extractLink opens in a new window)

Karl Marx

• Ökonomisch-Philosophische Manuskripte aus dem Jahre 1844 (extractsLink opens in a new window)
• Translation: Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts (extractsLink opens in a new window)
• Grundrisse der Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie (extractLink opens in a new window)
• Translation: Grundrisse (extractLink opens in a new window)
• Das Kapital, vol. 1 (extractLink opens in a new window)
• Translation: Capital, vol. 1 (extractLink opens in a new window)

Friedrich Nietzsche

• Also sprach Zarathustra (extractsLink opens in a new window)
• Zur Genealogie der Moral (extractsLink opens in a new window)

Georg Simmel

• 'Die Großstädte und das GeisteslebenLink opens in a new window', in Gesamtausgabe, vol. 7 (=Aufsätze und Abhandlungen 1901-1908, vol. 1), Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1995, pp. 116-131

Sigmund Freud

• Freud, Sigmund, Das Unbehagen in der Kultur, Frankfurt: Fischer, 2009

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Additional reading and secondary literature

(suggestions - for further reading see Library reading list)

Karl Marx

• Carver, Terrell, "Reading Marx: Life and worksLink opens in a new window", in Terrell Carver (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Marx, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. 1-22
• Postone, Moishe, "Rethinking Capital in light of the GrundrisseLink opens in a new window", in Marcello Musto, Karl Marx’s Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy 150 years later, London, New York: Routledge, 2008
• Stoetzler, Marcel, “Capitalist modernity is the real savagery: Karl Marx”, in Beginning classical social theoryLink opens in a new window, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017

Friedrich Nietzsche

• Ansell Pearson, Keith, and Duncan Large, "General IntroductionLink opens in a new window", in Keith Ansell Pearson and Duncan Large (eds.), The Nietzsche Reader, Malden (MA), Oxford, Carlton: Blackwell, 2006, pp. xiix-xlii
• Higgins, Kathleen and Bernd Magnus, "Nietzsche's works and their themesLink opens in a new window", in Bernd Magnus and Kathleen Higgins, The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 21-68
• Hollingdale, R.J., "The hero as outsiderLink opens in a new window", in Bernd Magnus and Kathleen Higgins, The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 71-89
• Salaquarda, Jörg, "Nietzsche and the Judaeo-Christian traditionLink opens in a new window", in Bernd Magnus and Kathleen Higgins, The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 90-118
• Simmel, Georg, "Zum Verständnis NietzschesLink opens in a new window", in Gesamtausgabe, vol. 7 (=Aufsätze und Abhandlungen 1901-1908, vol. 1), Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, pp. 57-63

Georg Simmel

• Aronowitz, Stanley, "The Simmel Revival: A Challenge to American Social ScienceLink opens in a new window", in The Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Aug., 1994), pp. 397-414
• Choi, Julie, "The Metropolis and Mental Life in the NovelLink opens in a new window", in New Literary History, Vol. 37, No. 4, Attending to Media (Autumn, 2006), pp. 707-724
• Frisby, David, "Social space, the city and the metropolisLink opens in a new window", in David Frisby, Simmel and since: Essays on Georg Simmel's social theory, London and New York: Routledge, 1992 [electronic resource - complete text available hereLink opens in a new window]
• Frisby, David, Fragments of Modernity: Theories of Modernity in the Work of Simmel, Kracauer and Benjamin, Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press, 1986 [ch. 2, "Georg Simmel: Modernity as an Eternal Present", available here: Frisby - Fragments of Modernity]
• Frisby, David (ed.), Georg Simmel: critical assessmentsLink opens in a new window, vols. 1-3, London : Routledge, 1994
• Fuchs, Stephan, "From Theory to Critique of Modernity: The Development of Simmel's SociologyLink opens in a new window", in Michigan Sociological Review, No. 5 (Fall, 1991), pp. 1-18
• Gross, Matthias, "Sociologists of the Unexpected: Edward A. Ross and Georg Simmel on the Unintended Consequences of ModernityLink opens in a new window", in The American Sociologist, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Winter, 2003), pp. 40-58
• Janowitz, Morris, "Sociological Theory and Social ControlLink opens in a new window", in American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 81, No. 1 (Jul., 1975), pp. 82-108
• Pyyhtinen, Olli, "Ambiguous Individuality: Georg Simmel on the 'Who' and the 'What' of the IndividualLink opens in a new window", in Human Studies, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Sep., 2008), pp. 279-298
• Simmel, Georg, "Das Geld in der modernen CulturLink opens in a new window", in Gesamtausgabe, vol. 5 (=Aufsätze und Abhandlungen 1894 bis 1900), Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1992, pp. 178-196
• Stoetzler, Marcel, “Strangers who are from here: Georg Simmel”, in Beginning classical social theoryLink opens in a new window, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017
• Vidler, Anthony, "Agoraphobia: Spatial Estrangement in Georg Simmel and Siegfried KracauerLink opens in a new window", in New German Critique, No. 54, Special Issue on Siegfried Kracauer (Autumn, 1991),pp. 31-45

Sigmund Freud

• Bersani, Leo, "IntroductionLink opens in a new window", in Sigmund Freud: Civilisation and its Discontents, London: Penguin, 2002
• Deigh, John, "Freud's later theory of civilization: Changes and implicationsLink opens in a new window", in Jerome Neu (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Freud, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp.287-308
• Paul, Robert, "Freud's anthropologyLink opens in a new window: A reading of the 'cultural books'", in Jerome Neu (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Freud, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. 267-286
• Schorske, Carl E., "Freud: The psychoarcheology of civilizationsLink opens in a new window", in Jerome Neu (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Freud, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. 8-24
• Storr, Anthony, Freud: A very short introduction, Oxford, New York : Oxford University Press, 2001 [link to electronic resource hereLink opens in a new window - but a word of caution: Storr can be a little simplistic and does not always do Freud justice, as any careful reader of, e.g., Unbehagen will soon realise]
• Storr, Anthony, Freud, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1989

Historical background

• Berghahn, Volker Rolf. Imperial Germany, 1871–1914: Economy, Society, Culture, and Politics (2nd ed. 2005)

• Blackbourn, David, The long nineteenth century: a history of Germany, 1780-1918 [electronic resource]. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

• Blackbourn, David, History of Germany, 1780-1918: the long nineteenth century. Malden, Mass., Oxford: Blackwell Pub., 2003 (revised version of Blackbourn 1998).

• Blackbourn, David and Geoff Eley, The peculiarities of German history: bourgeois society and politics in nineteenth-century Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.
  CLASS NO DD 203.B5.

• Craig, Gordon Alexander, Germany, 1866-1945 [electronic resource]. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

• Fulbrook, Mary, A Concise History of Germany [electronic resource]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

• Hamerow, Theodore S., Restoration, revolution, reaction: economics and politics in Germany, 1815-1871. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1958.
  CLASS NO HC285 .H36.

• Hamerow, Theodore S. (ed.), The age of Bismarck: documents and interpretations. New York; London: Harper and Row, 1973.
  CLASS NO DD 223.H2.
  CLASS NO DD 218.2.H2.

• Retallack, James, Imperial Germany, 1871–1918 [electronic resource], Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008
• Retallack, James, Germany in the age of Kaiser Wilhelm II, London: Macmillan, 1996.
• Sheehan, James J. (ed.), Imperial Germany. New York; London: F. Watts, 1976.
  CLASS NO DD 220.S4.
• Sheehan, James J., German history, 1770-1866. Oxford: Clarendon, 1989.
  CLASS NO DD203 .S4.
• Sheppard, Richard, "The Problematics of European Modernism", in Steve Giles (ed.), Theorizing modernism: essays in critical theory [electronic resource], London; New York: Routledge, 1993.