One: Simmel as a Puzzling Figure.- Two: Simmel as a Puzzling Figure for Contemporary Sociology.- On the Current Rediscovery of Georg Simmel¿s Sociology ¿ A European Point of View.- Georg Simmel¿s Concept of Society.- Georg Simmel and the Study of Modernity.- The World as Human Construction.- Four Concepts of Social Science at Berlin University: Dilthey, Lazarus, Schmoller and Simmel.- Simmel¿s Contribution to Parsons¿ Action Theory and its Fate.- Simmel on Memory.- Social Differentiation and Modernity: On Simmel¿s Macrosociology.- Simmel¿s Sociology in Relation to Schopenhauer¿s Philosophy.- Simmel on the Ratio of Subjective Values to Objective Cultural Possibilities.- On the Concept of ¿Erleben¿ in Georg Simmers Sociology.- Georg Simmel as an Analyst of Autonomous Dynamics: The Merry-Go-Round of Fashion.- Simmel, Individuality, and Fundamental Change.- Georg Simmel¿s Theory of Culture.- The Groundwork of Simmel¿s New ¿Storey¿ Beneath Historical Materialism.- Georg Simmel and the Cultural Dilemma of Women.- Dimensions of Conflict: Georg Simmel on Modern Life.- Simmel¿s Influence on Luk¿¿s Conception of the Sociology of Art.- Simmel¿s Metaphysics.- INDEX OF NAMES.