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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gxviil THE LIFE OF GEORG SIMMEL sociology. Wiese and Scheler in Cologne and the Vaertel- jahresheft fiir Sozialwissenschaften have definitely accepted Simmel’s views regarding the study of sociology. The immediate cause of Simmel’s death was a mortal illness, but the great indirect cause was the world-war. The underfeeding which resulted from it for all classes in Germany undermined his powers of resistance to the fatal disease. But even stronger than this physiological factor was the mental shock which his sensitive nature received through the war hatred and its results. He was a European in the best sense of the term, incapable of narrow chauvin- ism, a lover of that European culture which was for him an indivisible unity. The war threatened the very foundations of European culture. The burst of frenzied patriotism had divided the scientists and philosophers into fighting, squabbling na- tional factions. Co-operation for the sake of truth had been succeeded by mutual destruction for the sake of ha- tred. The search for truth had been abandoned, and the rationalization and justification of national prejudices had taken its place. Scientists and philosophers had given up their eternal calling and become political propagandists. All this grieved Simmel deeply. His faith in European culture was shaken. And added to his disappointment in the scientific world in general was his disappointment in some of his personal friends. Above all else he was disap- pointed in Bergson. Simmel had a profound admiration for his work and had done a great deal to introduce it to the German public. That Bergson should have been swayed by the national feeling in his country and should have turned chauvinist instead of keeping himself aloof from the political turmoil and intrigue hurt him deeply. Simmel himself remained objective and analytical in the midst of the debacle which befell Europe, and that alc tiv Ev he SC] his las ree ing she rea He of to al oj Lo of he pr

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