This article contributes to the development of sociology lying by exploring some earliest comments on topic, which are be found amongst Georg Simmel’s writings about secrecy. We outline broader approach interaction, as an experience that is conditioned upon non-knowledge, and work towards attribution him discovery aesthetic concealment revelation. This, we argue, can used a founding block in ly...

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...

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...