Name: The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays With Journal Aphorisms
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Author: Georg Simmel
ISBN: 9780226273303

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The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays With Journal Aphorisms

Type

Physical Book

Author

Georg Simmel

Publisher

University Of Chicago Press

Year

2015

Language

English

Pages

238

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780226273303

Synopsis "The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays With Journal Aphorisms "

Published in 1918, The View of Life is Georg Simmel’s final work. Famously deemed “the brightest man in Europe” by George Santayana, Simmel addressed diverse topics across his essayistic writings, which influenced scholars in aesthetics, epistemology, and sociology. Nevertheless, certain core issues emerged over the course of his career—the genesis, structure, and transcendence of social and cultural forms, and the nature and conditions of authentic individuality, including the role of mindfulness regarding mortality. Composed not long before his death, The View of Life was, Simmel wrote, his “testament,” a capstone work of profound metaphysical inquiry intended to formulate his conception of life in its entirety. Now Anglophone readers can at last read in full the work that shaped the argument of Heidegger’s Being and Time and whose extraordinary impact on European intellectual life between the wars was extolled by Jürgen Habermas. Presented alongside these seminal essays are aphoristic fragments from Simmel’s last journal, providing a beguiling look into the mind of one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers.

Georg Simmel

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Georg Simmel (Berlin, 1858 - Strasbourg, 1918) was a German philosopher and sociologist, considered one of the fathers of modern sociology. He studied history and philosophy at the University of Berlin, where he earned his doctorate in 1881 and subsequently taught philosophy between 1885 and 1914. In 1914, he was appointed professor at the University of Strasbourg.

Among his most notable works are "The Problems of the Philosophy of History" (1892), "The Philosophy of Money" (1900), "The Metropolis and Mental Life" (1903), and "Sociology: Studies on the Forms of Socialization" (1908). These works belong to the genre of sociology and social philosophy.

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