The social Theory of Georg Simmel

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Identifikator:: 1024612627

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-166627

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Spykman, Nicholas J. http://d-nb.info/gnd/124229867

Title:: The social Theory of Georg Simmel

Place of publication:: Chicago

Publisher:: Univ. of Chicago Press.

Year of publication:: 1925

Scope:: XXIX, 297 S

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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XV1 PREFACE fragmentary character which puts great obstacles in the way of a comprehensive treatment. To overcome these dif- Geulties, his differentiated analytical contributions have been integrated on the basis of his central idea regarding the relation of philosophic inquiry to exact science. According to Simmel, each exact science is flanked by two fields of philosophic inquiry, an epistemology and a metaphysics. This idea has been made the guiding principle for the organization of the material of this study, and it is for that reason that it is divided into three books. It is hoped that in this form it will be a unified and comprehensive totality, while yet giving Simmel’s own thought with the least amount of distortion and interpolation. The social sciences have not reached as yet that cos- mopolitan nature which is characteristic of the natural sciences. Physics and chemistry are international, but the social sciences carry a distinct mark of nationality. Amer- ican, English, French, German, and Russian sociology, each has characteristics of its own. It is therein that they show most clearly their limitation and announce to the world how far they are removed as yet from that absolute scientific objectivity which is the aim of every scientist. Only an intensive cross-fertilization of thought can coun- teract the dangerous tendency toward national self-suffi- ciency and keep open the road toward advancement and success. Only an international discussion of fundamental presuppositions can give us a common method. Should the following study contribute in that direction, the labors involved will not have been in vain. N. J. S. Lo acl Hi: ins m va pa. Qo

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