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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1S )- a = = it, us at 1S nt \g InN re ae ne 18e Jl on ON he as, 1ce -he nd of nal «cal no ist. ful ac- ce. OPPOSITION 119 In Germany this objectivation and increased factualness of the struggle has been greatly helped by the abstract im- personal treatment of the conflict in social and historical studies. In England the objectivation has been greatly facilitated by the fact that the conflict has from its early beginning been fought by an organized trade-union move- ment and more or less organized employers’ combinations. In these collective organizations the purely personal ele- ment had no place. But with this objectivation the inten- sity of the struggle has not diminished. On the contrary, it has become more conscious, better organized, and more aggressive and severe than it has ever been. The individu- al has become conscious that he is not merely struggling for himself, but is struggling rather for superpersonal ends; and that gives him a fighting strength and perseverance which he did not possess as long as his purpose was merely personal. The Conflict between Factions The peculiar sharpness and bitterness which the co- existence of union and opposition gives to certain con- ficts is also illustrated in factional strife. In that case the union is the starting-point and the basis of the relation- ship, and the opposition and the dualism a later develop- ment superimposed on the original foundation. Such con- flicts are usually much more passionate than those between parties which were not originally united in a common bond. This situation is illustrated in the conflicts between reli- gious and political factions and in class struggles and civil wars. There are apparently two forms of consensus which contribute especially to the bitterness and sharpness of conflicts. The first is the consensus which is due to the t Soz., pp. 265-70.

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