TY - JOUR

T1 - Import and export of ideas

T2 - Georg Simmel in Chicago, George M. Beard in Berlin

AU - Müller, Julian

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2023.

PY - 2023/11

Y1 - 2023/11

N2 - The influence of Georg Simmel on American sociology has been repeatedly pointed out. Robert E. Park and the Chicago School of Sociology in particular owe important impulses to Simmel. It is sometimes overlooked, however, that Simmel himself drew on imported knowledge in his famous essay ‘Die Großstädte und das Geistesleben’ when focusing on the nervousness of the city dweller. This article will therefore tell the brief story of a reciprocal transatlantic knowledge transfer between Berlin and Chicago. It looks at the mutual fascinations and influences, examining both the Americanisation of knowledge and the Europeanisation of experience.

AB - The influence of Georg Simmel on American sociology has been repeatedly pointed out. Robert E. Park and the Chicago School of Sociology in particular owe important impulses to Simmel. It is sometimes overlooked, however, that Simmel himself drew on imported knowledge in his famous essay ‘Die Großstädte und das Geistesleben’ when focusing on the nervousness of the city dweller. This article will therefore tell the brief story of a reciprocal transatlantic knowledge transfer between Berlin and Chicago. It looks at the mutual fascinations and influences, examining both the Americanisation of knowledge and the Europeanisation of experience.

KW - Sociology

KW - Berlin Großstadt-Dokumente

KW - Chicago School of Sociolog

KW - George M. Bea

KW - Georg Simm

KW - Robert E. Par

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85166030351&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1177/1468795x231186933

DO - 10.1177/1468795x231186933

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 23

SP - 501

EP - 521

JO - Journal of Classical Sociology

JF - Journal of Classical Sociology

SN - 1468-795X

IS - 4

ER -