COMO GEORG SIMMEL CHEGOU À MODERNIDADE E LHE PERMANECEU FIEL?

The Metropolis and Mental Life by Georg Simmel

The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life. The fight with nature which primitive man has to wage for his bodily existence attains in this modern form its latest transformation. The eight...

Speculating the Subject of Money: Georg Simmel on Human Value

This article initiates an inquiry into the sources and frameworks of value used to denote human subjects in modernity. In particular, I consider the conflation of monetary, legal, and theological registers employed to demarcate human worth. Drawing on Simmel’s speculative genealogy of the money equivalent of human values, I consider the spectrum of ascriptions from specifically quantified to in...

The Austrian Tertius Gaudens: A Revisit of Competition Theory in Light of Georg Simmel

Austrian market process theory stands out in assigning particular importance to the role of the customer. This is however not really salient as competition is discussed save for in a few particular instances. This is a pity since the market process discourse thereby deprives itself of a firm progressive footing concerning further elaborations of how market dynamics evolve. By drawing on the rea...

Georg Simmel at the Lectern: The Lecture as Embodiment of Text

As Privatdozent and later, außerordentlicher Professor at the University of Berlin hoping to be appointed to a permanent position, Georg Simmel’s task was to prove himself by attracting students to his courses. By all accounts, he was rather successful in this; the majority of the articles on Simmel contained in Buch des Dankes an Georg Simmel (Gassen and Landmann, 1958), a collection put toget...

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