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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d e Fm eo ++ £ 1d n- ne n w= ral he he 'y he. Y- «st ch n- 08- he he he is it re. ad aq OPPOSITION means a common subordination to the law, a common ac- ceptance of its forms of procedure, and a common recogni- tion of the fact that the decision can be made only ac- cording to the objective weight of the evidence. The parties to the contest are subordinate to a social power and a social order which give significance and security to that contest and make it rest on a broad basis of commu- nity and consensus between the opponents similar to the unity and consensus which are created by the parties to a contract or a commercial transaction through the realiza- tion and acceptance of the fact that, apart from the possi- ble antithesis of interests, they are bound by common rules and regulations. These common presuppositions, which exclude from the legal contest everything that is personal, give a purely factual and objective character to the uni- tary aspect of the relationship, which is paralleled in the dualistic aspect of the relationship by the sharpness, bit- terness. and relentlessness of the struggle itself. The Conflict of Impersonal Interests The conflict between individuals on account of imper- sonal interests bears a similar character. In such a case the interest in the struggle, and thereby the struggle itself, becomes differentiated from the person of the opponent. But the realization of being merely representatives of su- perindividual claims and of fighting, not for self, but for the cause gives to the struggle often a radical and merciless nature. Its character becomes analogous to the conduct of some entirely unselfish and idealistic people who, sacri- ficing their own lives for a cause, hold themselves entirely justified in sacrificing everybody else. Such a struggle for impersonal interests, but which is fought with all the strength and resources of the whole personality, bears the stamp of respectability. The respectable man is the man 117

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