Possible Times and Worlds: Art, Adventure, and the Stranger in Georg Simmel

Simmel discovers the essential in unessential, and sets centre of our affairs on periphery normal life. Temporary gratification, an ubi consistam, can fact only be obtained ulteriority to which we are referred temporarily linger marginal experiences, eccentric, as yet not saturated possibilities that come meet us, a gift, or result activity entirely own – adventure, dreams, artworks. Simmel’s fundamental question is how remain below one’s unexpressed possibilities. Through social individual levers, men should put position exploit richness their subjectivity objectivity modern world, force opening into possible, while at same time reducing inevitable exposure disappointment.