Georg Simmel (1858–1918) was a German philosopher, sociologist, cultural scientist, and one of the main representatives of the “philosophy of life.” Simmel's ideas influenced modern anthropology, cultural studies, and philosophy. The volume includes works and essays “Contemplation of Life”, “The Problem of Fate”, “Individual and Freedom”, “Fragment about Love”, “Adventure”, “Fashion”, works on the philosophy of culture - “The Concept and Tragedy of Culture”, “On essence of culture”, “Changing forms of culture”, “Crisis of culture”, “Conflict of modern culture”, etc. The book is intended for philosophers, culturologists, sociologists.