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 xxvii In a1 1l- it ad nd 1g. n- ne gh ad r= le on ad at ho 11S. of ar- 01 an lo- Al~ to ly ry. nd » a ih Yet at least some recognition of his work was forth- coming. The University of Heidelberg conferred upon him the degree of Dr. rer. pol. honoris causa in 1911. In 1914 Simmel was called to Strassburg to take the position of professor of philosophy (Ordinarius). He dis- liked to leave Berlin, which, in spite of many disappoint- ments, had become very dear to him. His lectures at the university had been attended by large and interested audi- ences, and there had been no lack of appreciation on the part of his hearers. But financial reasons forced him to leave the place where he had worked and taught for nearly thirty years for a more lucrative position in a less con- genial environment. A short time after he arrived in Strassburg the war broke out, and with it came the complete demoralization of academic life. The youth of the country was called to the front, and the faculty no less than the students con- tributed to the gruesome total of dead and wounded. From the academic point of view the Strassburg period was a great disappointment. The university had dwindled in size, the classes were small, and the selective process of military conscription had left a student body of a pecu- liar composition. Under these conditions Simmel lectured until shortly before his death, on September 28, 1918. Simmel had a great influence on the numerous students who passed beneath his touch during his thirty years of teaching. But he made no school in the narrow sense of the term. He aided his students in finding themselves rather than encouraged them to continue his own work. This was due also to the peculiar characteristics of his philosophy. Containing practically no structure, being a method rather than a system, it was not likely to suggest any substantial additions. The only field in which he has obtained a more or less definite following is the field of

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