Category Archives: Simmel

Simmel, explicated

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Lauren Elkin

Having a hard time with Simmel? This essay breaks it down nicely: “In the essay—a thoroughly turgid read, but essential—Simmel offers a theory of what happens to people when they live in cities, and how it relates to the ‘resistance … Continue reading →

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Paris in French and Expat Literature

Posted on August 28, 2010 by Lauren Elkin

Hello and welcome to the Fall 2010 semester at NYU in Paris! I hope we’ll be a convivial group, and that this site can serve as a kind of off-hours dinner table for us to gather at and gossip over. … Continue reading →

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