About the book: 2018 / It was Georg Simmel who turned sociology into the “science of today” and made the inner life of man a fact of the science of society: he was interested in the spirit of the times , and he tried to describe it by looking at everyday human existence. He was the first sociologist to think about consumption and money, about fashion and tourism, about love and the perception of time - and about the big city, which for Simmel became the quintessence of modern life.