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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INTRODUCTION yw YHIS first book has to deal with the field of inquiry 1 which flanks on one side the field of the exact sci- ences of the socio-historical actuality. It is the field in which the thought movement has changed from the exact scientific to the philosophical, in which the method of empirical science, with its main emphasis on a corre- spondence theory of truth, searches for a support and a justification in the method of philosophy, with its main emphasis on a coherence theory of truth. The inquiries of this field deal with the basic concepts, the fundamental presuppositions, and the a priori cate- gories of the social sciences. They are inquiries into prob- lems which cannot be settled within the field of inductive empirical investigation, since they form the basis on which that investigation rests. They deal with the problems of the philosophy and the methodology of these sciences, and with the problems of that field which Simmel, in harmony with his wider and more flexible concept of the a priori, calls the epistemology (Erkenninisstheorie) of society.

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