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Georg Simmel

Born

in Berlin, Germany

March 01, 1858

Died

September 26, 1918

Genre

Philosophy, Social Sciences, Politics

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Georg Simmel was a major German sociologist, philosopher, and critic.

Simmel was one of the first generation of German sociologists: his neo-Kantian approach laid the foundations for sociological antipositivism, asking 'What is society?' in a direct allusion to Kant's question 'What is nature?', presenting pioneering analyses of social individuality and fragmentation. For Simmel, culture referred to "the cultivation of individuals through the agency of external forms which have been objectified in the course of history". Simmel discussed social and cultural phenomena in terms of "forms" and "contents" with a transient relationship; form becoming content, and vice versa, dependent on the context. In this sense he was a forerunner to structura ...more

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	The Philosophy of Money 4.07 avg rating — 397 ratings — published 1900 — 136 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Metropolis and Mental Life 3.91 avg rating — 395 ratings — published 1903 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La moda 3.72 avg rating — 306 ratings — published 1905 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Modern Kültürde Çatışma by Georg Simmel, Tanıl Bora (Translator), Nazile Kalaycı (Translator) 4.40 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1918 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conflict / The Web Of Group Affiliations 3.79 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1964 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies 3.89 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1906 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Simmel on Culture: Selected Writings by Georg Simmel, David Patrick Frisby (Editor), Mike Featherstone (Editor) 4.02 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Schopenhauer and Nietzsche 3.66 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1907 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of the City: Rome, Florence, Venice 3.37 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1998 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Essays on Religion (Monograph Series (Society for the Scientific Study of Religion), No. 10) by Georg Simmel, Horst J. Helle (Editor) 4.03 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1997 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.”
― Georg Simmel

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“By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.”
― Georg Simmel, The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms

tags: philosophical, sociology

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“The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world by mathematical formulas. Only money economy has filled the days of so many people with weighing, calculating, with numerical determinations, with a reduction of qualitative values to quantitative ones.”
― Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel

tags: mathematics, money, reductionism

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