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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xXVi THE LIFE OF GEORG SIMMEL time. He helped his hearers to live, to find an adaptation to that vast cultural environment which is the European social heritage. Simmel was not only the philosopher of European cul- ture, he was a bearer of that culture, a lover of the best it had to offer. Not only did he know it, he lived it. He had an understanding and a warm appreciation of music and a profound love for the best of sculpture and painting. His journeys to Italy and the periods there of intimate con- tact with the treasures of the Italian Renaissance became an absolute necessity to his artistic soul. He had enough artistic intuition to understand the great masters. He had enough analytical power to translate that intuitive under- standing into suggestive concepts. To this remarkable combination we owe the peculiar charm of his works on Goethe and Rembrandt and of his essays on Rodin and Michelangelo. Yet, although as a teacher and lecturer he was a great success, beloved by his students and admired by all who heard him, his academic promotion was slow and tedious. He remained a private lecturer in Berlin until the day of his departure for Strassburg in 1914. The Berlin Univer- sity gave him in 1900 the title of Extraordinary Professor (Ausserordentlicher Professor), but that meant merely an honorable distinction, not a definite position with an ade- quate remuneration. The causes of this slow promotion can only be sur- mised. Certain difficulties with Dilthey are supposed to have had something to do with it. But what was probably largely responsible was the fact of his Jewish ancestry. The Berlin University was Prussian in its atmosphere, and the Prussian view of things was not likely to lead to a speedy promotion and official encouragement of Jewish teachers.

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