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 xxix 2) .d Fal AX, in zal or od an i= m an he 18- ad 1a- he ad 1p aloofness left him a lonely figure. He saw from his objec- tive standpoint better than others what was happening to Europe, and he suffered more deeply than those who had been carried away by the rampant chauvinism of the time. Simmel died like an ancient philosopher. Fully con- scious of the fact that his days were limited, resigned to his fate, he occupied himself with the corrections of his last work. It has been felt as the final tragedy of his ca- reer that he should begin the synthetic period of his think- ing when his bodily existence had begun its decay, that he should formulate a metaphysics of life when death had al- ready called him. Perhaps it was his greatest triumph. He at any rate did not feel that tragedy. In the utterances of his last days there was complete resignation. According to himself, he had given the world all he had to give. New applications, new formulations of his ideas he might have given, had he continued to live, but nothing fundamen- tally new could have been expected of him. In that feeling of having given his best he found the strength to die a beautiful death amid great physical suffering and grave doubts regarding the future of European culture. 3a an in n 1p- On it AN 11d sof in at « Ex EN esr X fs pis gs w

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