German sociologist, philosopher, and critic (1858–1918)
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He asked "What is society?" the way Kant asked "What is nature?" — and helped invent sociology by treating the modern city, the stranger, even romantic love as structures you could map like geometry.
Georg Simmel was born 1 March 1858 in Germany and became a philosopher and sociologist who rejected the positivist mainstream. His neo-Kantian method analyzed social life as shifting "forms" and "contents" — a pattern could be structure in one context, substance in another — prefiguring structuralism decades early. He wrote "The Metropolis and Mental Life," laying ground for urban sociology, symbolic interactionism, and social network analysis. An acquaintance of Max Weber, he covered emotion, romantic love, and the fragmentation of the individual with the same rigor others reserved for instit…
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The social game has a deeper double meaning—that it is played not only in a society as its outward bearer but that with its help people actually "play" "society.
Objectivity does not simply involve passivity and detachment; it is a particular structure composed of distance and nearness, indifference and involvement.
All relationships of people to each other rest, as a matter of course, upon the precondition that they know something about each other.
Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
In the presence of the total reality upon which our conduct is founded, our knowledge is characterized by peculiar limitations and aberrations.
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