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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MONEY AND INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY 231 ny nd ase Je- ‘he th- tly ns. the te- aie its 2en ia- res di- ney er- 1di- the on. 1di- the ; of rty in- ter- ads dividual from his group as a whole; it also leads to a lib- eration of the individual from his immediate associates. This is the result of the differentiation between the different spheres within the individual. He can now participate in an association with only a small part of his personality. The medieval corporation embraced the whole of the per- sonality. The money economy has created a form of asso- ciation which demands only a money participation on the part of its members and leaves the rest of the personality untouched. It is an organization which unites people by combining what is impersonal in them, while leaving out everything that is personal and specifically individual. Money has made possible the complete development of the purely purposeful association. That does not only mean that the individual can fully maintain his individual identity while yet being united with others; it also means that association has become possible between innumerable persons who are radically different in character. The small economic circle of the natural economy allows little special- ization and little individual liberty. Money creates large economic circles and allows complete specialization and full individual liberty. It allows in the economic world the full working out of the general sociological process which is manifest in the correlation between the expansion of the group and the development of individualism.! L Phil. des Geldes, pp. 357-86. ym- stie lay n-

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