Georg Simmel, L'argent dans la culture moderne et autres essais sur l'économie de la vie; Georg Simmel, Esthétique sociologique

Sur la présence des antigènes solubles dans la culture liquide et aérée de Hemophilus pertussis

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...

etude de la vie moderne dans les choses de g. perec

il y a longtemps que nous nous trouvons en face des problèmes soulevés de l’industrialisation de cet univers mécanique qui rend l’homme esclave de ses progrès. cette modernité qui se manifeste dans de différents aspects de la vie trouve son reflet complet dans un ouvrage de george perec intitulé les choses. cet écrivain du vingtième siècle, décrit la société moderne à travers l’histoire d’une g...

L'explication dans les sciences de la vie

his statement "Whether Greek is compulsory or not, Latin cannot be omitted from a good education" would receive other than partial support. He would have mourned the eclipse of King James I's version of the Bible by modern translations. This essay is of broad interest and can be recommended to all medical practitioners. It could be profitably entered into the already overcrowded undergraduate c...