Georg Simmel, Stile moderno: Saggi di estetica sociale, Barbara Carnevali, Andrea Pinotti (Eds.), Torino, Einaudi, 2020, pp. 437

Caterina Zanfi

doi:10.7202/1083827ar

From Mediation to Medium: Aesthetic and Anthropological Dimensions of the Image (Bild) and the Crisis of Bildung in German Modernism

Modernist Cultures ◽

10.3366/e2041102209000094 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 141-180 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Thomas Pfau

Keyword(s):

Georg Simmel ◽

Cultural Narrative ◽

Duke University ◽

Narrative Process ◽

Radical Transformation

Thomas Pfau (Duke University) explores the radical transformation of the Bildungsroman - and of the image ( Bild ) as its narrative, speculative fuel - in ‘The Magic Mountain’. Contrasting Mann's narrative process with that of Goethe and Hegel, and drawing on the sociological writings of Georg Simmel and Arnold Gehlen, Pfau reads Mann's novel as decisively breaking with Romanticism's self-generating, organicist, and teleological conception of cultural narrative.

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Georg Simmel und die aktuelle Stadtforschung

10.1007/978-3-531-93132-6 ◽

2011 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Georg Simmel

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Das Ende der Kultur: Wie Georg Simmel den Begriff der Kultur soziologisch dekonstruiert

Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie ◽

10.28937/1000106694 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 2015 (1-2) ◽

pp. 79-94

Author(s):

Ferdinand Fellmann

Keyword(s):

Social Identity ◽

Philosophy Of History ◽

Georg Simmel ◽

The Social ◽

Auguste Comte ◽

Individual Self ◽

The Way

In this paper I claim that the metaphysical concept of culture has come to an end. Among the European authors Georg Simmel is the foremost who has deconstructed the myth of culture as a substantial totality beyond relations or prior to them. Two tenets of research have prepared the end of all-inclusive culture: First, Simmel’s formal access that considers society as the modality of interactions and relations between individuals, thus overcoming the social evolutionism of Auguste Comte; second, his critical exegesis of idealistic philosophy of history, thus leaving behind the Hegelian tradition. Although Simmel adheres in some statements to the out-dated idea of morphological unity, his sociological and epistemological thinking paved the way for the concept of social identity as a network of series connected loosely by contiguity. This type of connection is confirmed by the present feeling of life as individual self-invention according to changing situations.

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Zum Anfassen: Phänomenologische Überlegungen im Anschluss an Georg Simmel

Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie ◽

10.28937/1000106690 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 2015 (1-2) ◽

pp. 11-22

Author(s):

Günter Figal

Keyword(s):

Georg Simmel ◽

Special Character ◽

The Difference

Starting from the observation that there are two different kinds of experiencing a thing – grasping and using it or keeping distance and contemplating it – this essay inquires into the enablement of this difference in experience. Referring to Georg Simmel's essay »Der Henkel« the special character of the handle of a vessel is examined in order to clarify the nature of the difference between things to grasp and things to contemplate. The argument is that this difference in experiencing a thing is enabled by the spatiality of things and references to them. Therefore the example of the handles of a Japanese Iga-vase is taken to demonstrate how the particular spatiality of a thing determines the reference to it. Thus the difference in the ways of experiencing a thing results from a difference in the experience of space.

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