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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THE LIFE OF GEORG SIMMEL (March 1, 1858—September 26, 1918) EORG SIMMEL was born in Berlin. His cradle G stood in a house on the corner of the Friedrich and Leipziger Strasse in the very heart of the city. As a metropolitan he was born, as a world-citizen he lived and died. He grew up a man with great breadth of vision and a consuming interest in all phases of human life. Although later professing the evangelical faith, Sim- mel was of Jewish descent. There are certain elements in his thinking which are characteristically Jewish. His gift for analysis and abstraction, the subtleness of his dialectic, and his use of analogy and symbols may well be attributed to his Semitic stock. Apart from his rich intellectual en- dowments, he was gifted with a keen appreciation of beauty and a fine intuitive understanding of human nature. At the age of twelve young Georg entered the gymna- sium, and after six years was admitted to the University of Berlin. Here he followed a regular course of four years of study, devoting most of his time to philosophy, psy- chology, and history. In 1881 Simmel obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy on a dissertation on Kant’s theory of matter (Das Wesen der Materie nach Kants physischer Monadologie) and three theses. Simmel had great teachers. He studied history under Droysen, Mommsen, von Sybel, von Treitschke, Grimm, and Jordan, psychology under Lazarus and Bastian, and philosophy under Harms and Zeller. It cannot be said that Simmel became an immediate adherent of any of these great men, however. He had too much individuality, too vil

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