... of science by Émile Boutroux’s and Georg Simmel’s lectures on Kant and, in particular, Kantian aesthetics. Form and formation are in the scientific and in the aesthetic context developed against the backdrop of the deficit or even lack of formal organization and, consequently, as a necessary yet contingent...

...Efraim Podoksik It is a common perception that the distinction between quantitative and qualitative individualism constitutes the basis of Georg Simmel's theory of individualism. Yet, by analyzing Simmel's writings on individualism and juxtaposing them with his theory of historical understanding...

...Stéphane Symons Georg Simmel's essay “How Is Society Possible?” is built on the idea that an individual can develop himself or herself fully only by entering into society but nevertheless remains marked with an “in-addition” or “individuality-nucleus” that is never entirely socialized...

...Todd Cronan Georg Simmel's sociology tends to elicit mixed feelings even among his admirers. “The Metropolis and Mental Life” provides one of the most compelling and influential accounts of modern, urban experience available, yet the meaning of this work is notoriously elusive. Does the difficulty...

... that interrogate modernity and its prioritization of mobility and speed: first, the moral interpretation of lateness as a stigma (Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Mann); second, the psychic view of lateness as a condition of perception (Georg Simmel, Franz Kafka, Robert Walser); and third, the psychoanalytic...

... of this essay is that this shift from freedom to vulnerability closely correlates with the disappearance of figural effects of mediation. The disappearance of a mediating function, which according to Georg Simmel is what makes face-to-face interaction social in the first place, fundamentally changes...

..., as in the sociology of Max Weber and Georg Simmel, but also to contemporary dialectical theology. Systematically, the unfolding of the sacred as a movement in the text opens up a critical perspective on the current turn to religion in theory, which often refers to Benjamin affirmatively yet overlooks the complexity...

... section by modern writers such as Georg Simmel, who in Sociol- ogy of the Senses (1908) compared the human physiognomy, whose traits 24. See Balázs, Der sichtbare Mensch, 73; Walter Benjamin, “Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit,” in Illuminationen (Frankfurt am Main...

... the methodological model of the great founders of sociology, such as Simmel and Max Weber, whose works he knew well by that time. While preparing Evolutionary His- tory Lukács read works by Simmel, Karl Marx, Weber, Werner Sombart, and Ferdinand Tönnies and became convinced that a causal explanation of culture...

... Geist als Widersacher der Seele , translated in Bishop, Archaic , 29–30 . 64. Benjamin is also referencing Simmel’s discussion of the slave revolt of technology (rather than of the masses) in The Philosophy of Money : “If we consider the totality of life,” the cost of the technological...

... of Metaphorical Thinking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Martin Blumenthal-Barby Georg Simmel’s Timeless Impressionism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Todd Cronan A Close Reading of Georg Simmel’s Essay “How Is Society Possible...

..., Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity . New York : Basic . Richter Gerhard . 2007 . Thought-Images: Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Simmel Georg . 2001 . “Zur Ästhetik der Alpen.” In Aufsätze und Abhandlungen...

... to that of Georg Simmel. As the first German intellectual to write about French crowd psychology, Simmel transformed this theory: before World War I it primarily addressed the urgent but limited concern posed by the so- called dangerous classes; after the war it claimed to explain contemporary society...

....”14 In this way they place in question the regulated “touristic itineraries” predicated on the normative experience of urban temporality as outlined by Georg Simmel in his essay on the metropolis and mental life:15 the model of “punctuality,” or “chronometric precision,” that defines...

... philosophy as shaped by experiences of music, travel, and landscapes of distance and estrangement. 19. Simmel, “Philosophy of Landscape,” 27 . 20. Leppert, “On Reading Adorno Hearing Schubert,” 58 . 21. See Lee, “Minstrel in a World without Minstrels.” 22. Adorno, “Idea...

... cross-border communi- cations.) This claim was the basis of the GDR writer Hans-Joachim Franke’s 1967 story “Tunnel 62,” in which Western plans are foiled just in time by effi- cient border guards.9 The Munich-based Austrian novelist Johannes Mario Simmel turned the espionage claim on its head...

..., February 2016 DOI 10.1215/0094033X-3329175  © 2016 by New German Critique, Inc. 1 2  Dismantling the Subject were on offer: the Germanic as opposed to the Romanic self discussed by Georg Simmel, the religious Personhood of Protestant...

... (and with a previous book on Ezra Pound).11 We had met once, the year before; then, we talked exclusively about Georg Simmel, each of us finally asking the other just why we happened to be reading Simmel so intently. Later, we talked about Coney Island, department stores, world’s fairs, toy stoves, modernity...

... structures of Taylorist work organization. “The hands in the factory correspond to the legs of the Tiller Girls” (MO, 79). This comparative method, in which two social phenomena illuminate each other reciprocally, is prefi gured in the work of Kracauer’s sociological teacher, Georg Simmel. In a 1920...

... sensitized reaction to a particularly urban environment, much like that described by the German philosopher and sociologist Georg Simmel in his 1903 essay “The Metropolis and Mental Life.” What we discover, however, is a certain fail- ure on Malteʼs part to adopt the self-protective mechanisms...