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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7O=- ng- a- er- va Iso ac- 1b- in sti- og- zht een on- of the rgle the the le, the n as e 1s LSN= mu- gle in- e to rug- will ons ake OPPOSITION 115 is something external to the struggle itself, which might perhaps be obtained by other means, will give a distinct color to the struggle. Only if the struggle is prompted ex- clusively by the love of struggle is there no other alterna- tive and can satisfaction result from conflict only. The pugnacious instinct, however, is usually not the sole element in the struggle. It acts rather as a reinforce- ment to the other impulses that bring about the contro- versy, or as a foundation on which a conflict can be built. Even if a struggle is originally fought solely for the sake of the struggle, this situation will not remain. The inter- est in the struggle may at the outset have been impersonal and indifferent to the content of the controversy, but eventually hatred and envy will reinforce the original im- pulse. The purity of a struggle for struggle’s sake, there- fore, does not remain. It becomes mixed with other im- nulses and with objective interests.! The Contest Game A conflict and struggle exclusively for the sake of the struggle and without any other impulse or ulterior motive occurs only in the case of the contest game. In this case the purely sociological attraction of self-assertion and of predominance over others in skill is combined only with the purely individual pleasure in the exercise of purposeful and successful activity. The contest game in its sociologi- cal motivation contains nothing but the contest itself. The worthless markers, for the sake of which men often play with the same earnestness with which they play for money, indicate the purely formal aspect of this impulse. But even in the case of the contest game there exists a socialization in the more narrow sense of the term. No contest can take place without some kind of unification. l Soz., pp. 247-64.

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