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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236 THE SOCIAL THEORY OF GEORG SIMMEL means of mathematical calculations, and this fact has been of great influence on our ideals of knowledge. In this respect the money economy is merely the sub- limation of economic life. Money relates the purely eco- nomic aspects of objects just as logic relates the aspects of objects which are intelligent and conceptual. The money economy creates an abstract structure or system which consists of the purely economic values differentiated from objects. This structure or system can be dealt with in terms of mathematics, and this fact reflects back on the objects from which it has been abstracted. If it is true that the predominant style of art influences our way of viewing nature, then the quantitatively definable superstructure of monetary relations above the qualitative actuality must influence strongly our way of viewing that actuality. Thus the calculating intelligence which expresses and manifests itself in the money economy receives back from that same money economy some of the characteristic mental energy with which it masters modern life. Money in Its Relations to Subjective and Objective Culture The differentiation between the subjective and objec- tive aspects of mental life already referred to becomes once more manifest in modern times in the separation between subjective and objective culture. But in this particular field the separation has apparently become so complete that there is not even a parallel development. In certain fields of life the objective culture outruns the subjective cultural development, while in other fields the subjective development outruns the growth of its objective counter- part. If we view the contents of life as elements of culture, we L Phil. des Geldes, pp. 480-501.

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