湘潭大学文学与新闻学院副教授杨向荣博士的《现代性和距离:文化社会学视域中的齐美尔美学》(社会科学文献出版社,2009)是国内齐美尔美学思想研究的第一本系统性专著,该书力图从文化社会学与美学的视域出发,选取两个具有代表性的范畴——“现代性”和“距离”——来对齐美尔的 Modernity and Distance: Simmel’s Aesthetics from the Perspective of Cultural Sociology (Social Science Literature Publishing House, 2009) is the first systematic study of Zimmer’s aesthetics in the country This monograph aims at alluding to the United States from the perspective of cultural sociology and aesthetics by selecting two representative categories: “modernity” and “distance”