O pensamento sobre viagem e viajantes nos escritos de Søren Kierkegaard (1913-1855) Georg Simmel (1858-1918) revela afinidades no que diz respeito à abordagem do estético ético, inerentes atividade viajar. Após uma breve contextualização histórica era viajar tempos em viveram, a respectiva crítica da viajante é abordada duas seções diferenciadas. Na quarta seção, aplicam-se os conteúdos kierkeg...

This paper explores five topics where Georg Simmel’s Philosophy of Money poses challenges for contemporary monetary scholarship. First, any microfoundations for macroeconomics would be erected upon catallactical and not choice-theoretic foundations. Second, money is a tool of thought and not just a veil. Third, Simmel points to a way to make sense of a claim that goes back at least to Richard C...

ion, of course, presupposes conceptualization, and analytical foci usually revolve around ‘‘sensitizing’’ concepts that ‘‘suggest directions along which to look’’ thus providing ‘‘a general sense of relevance and guidance in approaching empirical instances’’ (Blumer, 1954:7). ‘‘Every science,’’ notes Simmel ([1908] 1959:313; [1917] 1950:11, 21), ‘‘rests upon an abstraction inasmuch as it consid...