Along with future collaborators like Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Ernst Bloch, Adorno was profoundly disillusioned by the ease with which Germany's intellectual and spiritual leaders — among them Max Weber, Max Scheler, Ernst Simmel, as well as his friend Siegfried Kracauer — came out in support of the war.

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Georg Simmel ( March 1, 1858 – September 28, 1918 ) was a major 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?

With his work on the metropolis, Simmel was a precursor of urban sociology, symbolic interactionism and social network analysis.

Simmel was born in Berlin, Germany, as the youngest of seven children.

Georg Simmel, himself, was baptized as a Protestant when he was a child.

Simmel ’ s sociology was concerned with relationships especially interaction and was known as a “ methodological relationist ”.

It gained wider circulation in the 1950s when it was translated into English and published as part of Kurt Wolff's edited collection, The Sociology of Georg Simmel.

Simmel was known as an essayist as well as author of sociological and philosophical books.

During his studies at the University he was also influenced by the works of Georg Simmel, Ludwig Klages and Martin Heidegger, but also by the Russian philosopher Lev Shestov, who added the belief that life is arbitrary to Cioran ’ s central system of thought.

Dilthey did, however, have good things to say about the neo-Kantian sociology of Georg Simmel, with whom he was a colleague at the University of Berlin.

Simmel himself was later an associate of Max Weber, the primary founder of sociological antipositivism.

His work in that field was distinguished by his acumen, his philosophical understanding, and extensive study of the major pioneering works of Durkheim, Toennies, Max and Alfred Weber, Simmel and others in the British Museum Library in London, while resident as a student in Oxford.

Georg Simmel ( March 1, 1858 – September 28, 1918, Berlin, Germany ) was one of the first generation of German nonpositivist sociologists.

The specific term " economic sociology " was first coined by William Stanley Jevons in 1879, later to be used in the works of Émile Durkheim, Max Weber and Georg Simmel between 1890 and 1920.

From 1927 until 1931 Tegel Palace was the site of a sanatorium, founded by the psychoanalyst Ernst Simmel ( 1882-1947 ).

Some mention has been made of Georg Simmel and scholarly connection to Max Weber, particularly in terms of their influence on the Frankfurt School, but Marianne Weber, too, was a colleague of Simmel's.

This idea was also proposed by Simmel, who noted that the upper classes abandon fashions as they are adopted by lower ones.

Nietzsche scholar Walter Kaufmann has described an argument originally put forward by Georg Simmel, which rebuts the claim that a finite number of states must repeat within an infinite amount of time:

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.

An acquaintance of Max Weber, Simmel wrote on the topic of personal character in a manner reminiscent of the sociological ' ideal type '.

Simmel focused on forms of association and paid little attention to individual consciousness.

Simmel believed in the creative consciousness and this belief can be found in diverse forms of interaction, the ability of actors to create social structures and the disastrous effects those structures had on the creativity of individuals.

In other words, Simmel does not quite say that the big city has an overall negative effect on the mind or the self, even as he suggests that it undergoes permanent changes.

After the industrial revolution, sociologists such as Max Weber, and particularly Georg Simmel in works such as The Metropolis and Mental Life ( 1903 ), focused on the increasing process of urbanization and the effects it had on feelings of social alienation and anonymity.

The intellectual origins of the idea can be traced back to the work of early social theorists such as Georg Simmel who analyzed the effect of modernization and industrial capitalism on complex patterns of affiliation, organization, production and experience.

Still others, notably Peter Blau, follow Simmel in attempting to base a formal theory of social structure on numerical patterns in relationships — analyzing, for example, the ways in which factors like group size shape intergroup relations.

" Elective affinities: Georg Simmel and Marianne Weber on gender and modernity.

Max Weber and Georg Simmel introduced interpretive understanding ( Verstehen ) into sociology, where it has come to mean a systematic interpretive process in which an outside observer of a culture ( such as an anthropologist or sociologist ) relates to an indigenous people or sub-cultural group on their own terms and from their own point-of-view, rather than interpreting them in terms of his or her own culture.

Both Weber and Georg Simmel pioneered the Verstehen ( or ' interpretative ') approach toward social science ; a systematic process in which an outside observer attempts to relate to a particular cultural group, or indigenous people, on their own terms and from their own point-of-view.

Both Weber and Georg Simmel pioneered the verstehen ( or ' interpretative ') approach toward social science ; a systematic process in which an outside observer attempts to relate to a particular cultural group, or indigenous people, on their own terms and from their own point of view.

Simmel nevertheless continued his intellectual and academic work, taking part in artistic circles as well as being a cofounder of the German Society for Sociology, together with Ferdinand Tönnies and Max Weber.

Among his valued intellectual sources were György Lukács, Oszkár Jászi, Georg Simmel, Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, Karl Marx, Alfred and Max Weber, Max Scheler, and Wilhelm Dilthey.

As Simmel ( 1908 ) and Dilthey ( 1922 ) indicated, questions of whether the value of life is individual or social are not questions, but assertions of faith made to appear as legitimate questions.

Simmel also believed that social and cultural structures come to have a life of their own.

The same can be said of Simmel when he says that, " the vitality of real individuals, in their sensitivities and attractions, in the fullness of their impulses and convictions ... is but a symbol of life, as it shows itself in the flow of a lightly amusing play ," or when he adds: " a symbolic play, in whose aesthetic charm all the finest and most highly sublimated dynamics of social existence and its riches are gathered.

The organizers of the exhibition over-emphasized its negative comments about city life, because Simmel also pointed out positive transformations.

In this major work, Simmel saw money as a component of life that helped us understand the totality of life.

For Simmel, city life leads to a division of labor and increased financialization.

The life of the private lecturer can be unsatisfactory ( Georg Simmel called the time " the purgatory of P. D .- ship ").

Contrary to philosophers like Nietzsche and Bergson, Rickert emphasized that values demand a distance from life, and that what Bergson, Dilthey or Simmel called " vital values " were not true values.

Simmel unfolded also an urban sociology ( his articles were read in Chicago school ): in his question of the specific ways of life in big cities ( " Big cities and life of spirit ", 1903 ).

* Georg Simmel, The Metropolis and Mental life, adapted by D. Weinstein from Kurt Wolff ( Trans.