By Georg Simmel

'I have misplaced curiosity ... in all that i've got written ahead of The Philosophy of cash. This one is absolutely my e-book, the others seem to me colourless and appear as though they can were written by means of a person else.' - Georg Simmel to Heinrich Rickert (1904)
In The Philosophy of cash, Simmel presents us with a remarkably wide-ranging dialogue of the social, mental and philosophical points of the money financial system, filled with really good insights into the types that social relationships take. He analyzes the relationships of cash to replace, the human character, the placement of ladies, person freedom and lots of different components of human life. Later he presents us with an account of the results of the trendy funds economic climate and the department of labour, which examines the methods of alienation and reification in paintings, city existence and in different places. possibly, greater than any of his different sociological works, The Philosophy of cash provides us an instance of his accomplished research of the interrelationships among the main different and likely hooked up social phenomena.
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The Expressionist Art History of Wilhelm Worringer, University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. ), Gestaltungsgeschichte und Gesellschaftsgeschichte, Stuttgart, Metzler, 1969, pp. 450–60, esp. p. 450. Rammstedt (eds), Georg Simmel und die Moderne, op. , pp. Faath, ‘Rainer Maria Rilke und Georg xlii 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 Simmel’, in Rainer Maria Rilke. Blaetter der Rilke Gesellschaft, vol. 23, 2000, p. Schings, ‘Die Frage des Malte Laurids Brigge und Georg Simmel’, Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte, no.

It was Simmel who wrote about fashion differently from Benjamin. 98 Such a judgement should lead us to ask why a work originally published in 1900 remains not merely of historical interest—and exploration of its ‘far away’ context is crucial to a fuller understanding of the text—but also why since its translation, it has continued to attract increasing interest. Perhaps some of the issues in Simmel’s own explorations of modernity have a relevance and resonance in our very different times. xxxiv IV As indicators of the increasing interest in Simmel’s analysis of money, in the past decade a number of monographs have appeared that seek to clarify the main arguments in Simmel’s Philosophy of Money and, more broadly, to develop a sociology of money that owes something at least to this work.

Schings, ‘Die Frage des Malte Laurids Brigge und Georg Simmel’, Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte, no. 4, 2002, pp. 643–71. Frisby, Sociological Impressionism (second edition), London, Routledge, 1991, ch. 5. More recently on Musil and social theory see Austin Harrington, ‘Robert Musil and Classical Sociology’, Journal of Classical Sociology, vol. 2, no. 1, 2002, pp. 59–76. Schings, ‘Die Frage des Malte Laurids Brigge und Georg Simmel’, op. , p. 652. Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (trans.

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