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Messages from Georg Simmel

By Horst Jürgen Helle

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2012
ISBN
9004233687, 9789004233683
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2470851 bytes)
Series
Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Edition
1st
Pages
212\212
Time added
2015-05-25 08:15:29
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Description

As founder of the humanist version of sociology, Simmel sent powerful messages that are identified and explained in this book: interpretation — things are often not what they appear to be; change — culture and society evolve over time; interaction — reality is socially constructed; alienation — people define the value of money without taking responsibility for this construction. Simmel sees humans defining objects in interaction as valuable or worthless, but then they refuse to acknowledge having anything to do with the process of value attribution. He is critical in politics as well; Simmel is concerned that socialism is treated as a political movement and not viewed as a potential form of social interaction.

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