Roses: A Social Hypothesis Simmel, Georg
Theory, culture & society,
09/2021, Letnik:
38, Številka:
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First published in 1897 in the avant-garde journal Jugend, Simmel’s fairy tale tells the story of the emergence of a sense of grievance about differences in the ability to grow roses which became ...constructed as a ‘terrible inequality’. Although moves were made to address this inequality so that everyone became able to grow roses, differences remained in how well different rose gardens grew, which in turn came to be perceived as an equally oppressive form of inequality. A translator’s note outlines the significance of the text for the sociological analysis of inequality and the pursuit of equality, placing it in the context of related theories of inequality, recognition, distinction, the narcissism of minor differences, and ressentiment.
With a new foreword by Charles Lemert
'Its greatness...lies in ceaseless and varied use of the money form to unearth and conceptually reveal incommensurabilities of all kinds, in social reality fully ...as much as in thought itself.' - Fredric Jameson
In The Philosophy of Money, Georg Simmel puts money on the couch. He provides us with a classic analysis of the social, psychological and philosophical aspects of the money economy, full of brilliant insights into the forms that social relationships take. He analyzes the relationships of money to exchange, human personality, the position of women, and individual freedom. Simmel also offers us prophetic insights into the consequences of the modern money economy and the division of labour, in particular the processes of alienation and reification in work and urban life.
An immense and profound piece of work it demands to be read today and for years to come as a stunning account of the meaning, use and culture of money.
Georg Simmel (1858-1918) was born in Berlin, the youngest of seven children. He studied philosophy and history at the University of Berlin and was one of the first generation of great German sociologists that included Max Weber.
Georg Simmel's highly original take on the newly revived field of sociology succeeded in making the field far more sophisticated than it had been beforehand. He took insights from dialectical thought ...and Kantian epistemology to develop a "form sociology" method that remains implicit in the field a century later. Forms include such patterns of interaction as inequality, secrecy, membership in multiple groups, organization size, and coalition formation. While today texts and professional societies are organized around "contents" rather than "forms," a fresh reading of Simmel's chapters on forms suggests original avenues of inquiry into each of the contents--family, business, religion, politics, labor relations, leisure.
Henri Bergson Georg Simmel
DigitHVM revista digital d'humanitats,
07/2017
20
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Henri Bergson fou escrit entre els mesos de juny i agost de 1914, quan Georg Simmel ja s’havia establert a Estrasburg. En aquest text Simmel se centra en la figura del filòsof francès i en remarca la ...importància per a la tradició filosòfica mitjançant la consideració de la seva filosofia de la vida com l’element principal per a una concepció moderna del món a principis del segle xx. Igualment s’evidencia l’empremta relacional en la lectura que Simmel fa de Bergson en les seves afirmacions sobre el suposat sentit absolut del temps i sobre la possibilitat d’un concepte de vida que superi parelles i contradiccions. Traducció: María Cecilia Diaz Isenrath ( Universitat Nacional de Cuyo , Argentina). email: cdiazisenrath@gmail.com . ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5074-8883
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