Georg Simmel (1 March 1858 – 28 September 1918) was a German sociologist, philosopher, and critic.
Simmel was one of the first generation of German sociologists: his neo-Kantian approach laid the foundations for sociological antipositivism, asking 'What is society?' in a direct allusion to Kant's question 'What is nature?', presenting pioneering analyses of social individuality and fragmentation. For Simmel, culture referred to "the cultivation of individuals through the agency of external forms which have been objectified in the course of history". Simmel discussed social and cultural phenomena in terms of "forms" and "contents" with a transient relationship; form becoming content, and vice versa, dependent on the context. In this sense he was a forerunner to structuralist styles of reasoning in the social sciences. With his work on the metropolis, Simmel was a precursor of urban sociology, symbolic interactionism and social network analysis.
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Georg Simmel
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German sociologist, philosopher, and critic (1858-1918)
| Born | 1 Mar 1858 |
| Died | 28 Sep 1918 |
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Georg Simmel
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German sociologist, philosopher, and critic (1858-1918)
| Born | 1 Mar 1858 |
| Died | 28 Sep 1918 |
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Philosophy, Sociology, History, Aesthetics, Religion, Addresses, essays, lectures, Art, Modern Philosophy, Theory of Knowledge, Methodology, Civilization, German Philosophy, Love, Philosophie, Philosophy, Modern, Religion and sociology, Criticism and interpretation, Knowledge, Theory of, Money, Sex, Social conflict, Social groups, Social sciences, Women, Argent (Monnaie)People
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), Georg Simmel (1858-1918), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669), Rembrandt van Ryn, Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)ID Numbers
- OLID: OL112837A
- ISNI: 0000000123205189
- VIAF: 39384262
- Wikidata: Q76849
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q76849
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| September 30, 2020 | Edited by MARC Bot | add ISNI |
| October 7, 2017 | Edited by dcapillae | Add bio |
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| June 6, 2012 | Edited by VacuumBot | Removed period from death date |
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