Georg Simmel und Max Weber

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duk-Yung Kim
Keyword(s):  
Max Weber ◽  
Georg Simmel

scholarly journals The implications of nostalgia in German modern sociology

Sociologija ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-236
Author(s):  
Ana Petrov
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Georg Simmel ◽  
Social Loss ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Traditional Communities

In this article, I deal with nostalgia as an implicit category in the 19th-century German sociological discourses. I draw on the approaches that argue that sociology can be seen as a nostalgic social science since the sociologists? discourses were focused on the issues of causes, characteristics, and consequences of the modern age for individuals and society. Trying to explicate modern society, usually by comparing it to the premodern forms of social order, modern sociologists shaped dichotomous categories that were used for the definition of basic sociological concepts, one of the typical ones being the dichotomy between modern society and traditional communities. I here argue that modern sociologists constructed their theories in relation to the idea of a lack or loss, i.e. in relation to the question of what the modern society left behind during its growth: community, spirit or freedom. An alternative, a solution, or simply a utopian object for making comparison are found exactly in the object that is lost - in the nostalgic reflection on those aspects of humanity that were no longer possible in the modern age. Hence, I argue that modern sociology can be defined as a certain discourse on social loss. This will be elaborated on the examples of theories of Ferdinand Tonnies, Max Weber, and Georg Simmel.

Béla Balázs: The Face of Cinema

October ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 148 ◽  
pp. 53-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noël Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Bela Bartok ◽  
Georg Simmel ◽  
Zoltan Kodaly ◽  
Karl Mannheim ◽  
Sergei Eisenstein ◽  
Michael Curtiz ◽  
The Face ◽  
Gyorgy Lukacs

Herbert Bauer, known to the world as Béla Balázs (1894–1949), led the sort of life about which contemporary intellectuals might fantasize. He knew everyone and he did everything. Born in Hungary, he included György Lukács, Karl Mannheim, Arnold Hauser, Béla Bartók, and Zoltán Kodály in his circle, among others. He knew the filmmakers Alexander Korda and Michael Curtiz before their names were Anglicized. He studied with Georg Simmel and met Max Weber. As time went on, he came, so it seems, to know virtually every major European intellectual—Stefan Zweig, Robert Musil, Walter Benjamin, Sergei Eisenstein, Erwin Piscator, and on and on. He lived in the midst of a universe of conversation that dazzles us as we look back enviously upon it.

scholarly journals O trágico nas sociologias de Georg Simmel e Max Weber

Sociologias ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (48) ◽  
pp. 212-244
Author(s):  
Alyson Thiago Fernandes Freire
Keyword(s):  
Max Weber ◽  
Georg Simmel

Resumo Este artigo se propõe, de uma maneira não exaustiva, a apresentar e discutir em quais componentes do pensamento sociológico de Georg Simmel e Max Weber podemos identificar a atuação de uma sensibilidade trágica na abordagem dos processos conformadores da cultura moderna. No primeiro, identificamos o “ponto de vista trágico” enquanto ambivalência e uma pressuposição de autocontradição fundamental inscrita nos processos e fenômenos constitutivos do estilo de vida moderno. No segundo, esforçamo-nos em exprimir como o trágico emerge, de maneira surpreendente, irônica e indesejada, das consequências não previstas e não intencionais da ação dos agentes.

The corrosion of character: Work and personality in the modern age

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-155
Author(s):  
Gregor Fitzi ◽  
Vincenzo Mele
Keyword(s):  
Current Issue ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Georg Simmel ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Character Work ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
Insight Into

The topic of this imaginary dialogue between Georg Simmel and Max Weber is the relation between work – in the sense of labour – and personality. Its aim is to show that the thinking of these ‘founding fathers’ of sociology can furnish valuable insight into the current issue of the corrosion of character in contemporary post-Fordist society. The concept of work still represents one of the major factors determining modern individuals’ ability (or inability) to formulate personal, stable identities that enable them to become fully socialized. Both Simmel and Weber make reference to a common theoretical background that views the human being as a creature with originally rational potential, who is faced with the task of becoming a personality by means of consciously chosen life behaviour: This is evident in the parallelism between Simmel’s interest in the concept of ‘style of life’ ( Der Stil des Lebens) and Weber’s research on the ‘life conduct’ ( Lebensführung) that arose in Western rationalistic culture.

scholarly journals Georg Simmel, Stefan George und der Erste Weltkrieg

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (53) ◽  
pp. 79-89
Author(s):  
Gerd Hammer ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Max Weber ◽  
Martin Buber ◽  
Fundamental Change ◽  
Georg Simmel ◽  
Ernst Bloch ◽  
Max Scheler ◽  
Stefan George ◽  
Pace Of Life ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Great War

Initially, the Great War was received euphorically by many writers and philosophers, including Max Weber, Martin Buber and Max Scheler along with Georg Simmel. For Simmel, the war was synonimous with a greater pace of life, a form of dealing with / overcoming the levelling of society caused by the worshipping of money (´Mammonismus`). This exaltation of the war on the part of intellectuals was not common to all – the harsh criticisms of Simmel´s enthusiasm for the war on the part of Georg Lucácz and Ernst Bloch are well-known. Regarding Stefan George, in 1901 Simmel had written: ´His art has been known since its beginning for the wish to act exclusively like an art (...) the fundamental change is complete: that on the contrary, all content is merely the means for forming values that are purely aesthetics.` Therefore, in the aesthetic of Stefan George, Simmel acknowledges the reason that George will reject the war – contrary to many members of George´s circle (George-Kreis) and has its expression in the poem ´The War`, first published in 1917. This contribution seeks to demonstrate the philosophical and aesthetical reasons for enthusiasm for the war and its rejection by Simmel and George, attitudes that are not able to be explained by the opposition to militarism/pacifism that is normally deployed to distinguish between supporters and critics of the war.

scholarly journals A relação entre razão e história na modernidade

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-195
Author(s):  
Bruno Gontyjo do Couto
Keyword(s):  
Max Weber ◽  
Georg Simmel ◽  
Norbert Elias

Em meio a diferentes usos possíveis, o termo “modernidade” já foi empregado no sentido de designar a “mentalidade de uma época” que, dentre outras coisas, teria como uma de suas principais marcas a crença no conhecimento como forma de domínio da natureza e do fluxo histórico e, assim sendo, uma ferramenta de emancipação do homem. Trata-se de uma conjuntura na qual se pregava o triunfo da razão sobre o devir, uma forma de compreensão social crente na proeminência da razão sobre o mundo, sugerindo um nexo específico entre razão e história que aqui será problematizado. Posto isso, este ensaio pretende realizar um itinerário bibliográfico voltado para a apreensão dos saberes sociológicos que estiveram envolvidos com esse tema. Mais especificamente, objetiva realizar uma exegese a partir dos trabalhos de Georg Simmel, Max Weber e Norbert Elias, tomando esses trabalhos não só como modos de interpretação por meio dos quais o nexo entre razão e história tornou-se sociologicamente “inteligível”, mas, sobretudo, como modos de compreensão social que informam consciências e que, na medida em que o fazem, participam da constituição do mesmo nexo.

scholarly journals Para uma nova caixa de Pandora

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Guerra ◽  
Thiago Meneses Alves ◽  
Lucas Souza
Keyword(s):  
Max Weber ◽  
Georg Simmel ◽  
Cultural Turn

Ainda que a música esteja presente nas obras de autores pioneiros da sociologia (Max Weber e Georg Simmel), não é possível falar em um campo devidamente consistente do fenômeno musical dentro dos estudos sociológicos, não obstante os trabalhos de alguns pesquisadores (Simon Frith, Andy Bennett, Antoine Hennion, Tia De Nora, dentre outros), impulsionados em grande parte pelo cultural turn ocorrida na sociologia em meados dos anos de 1970. Tendo em vista este panorama, o presente artigo tem como objetivo contribuir com as discussões sobre o “estado da arte” da sociologia da música a partir das seguintes questões: a) o equilíbrio necessário entre a abordagem estética da música e a sua devida contextualização social; b) o papel importante da música popular – em especial do pop-rock – na conformação das identidades/práticas de segmentos geracionais, simbólicos e culturais específicos; c) o incremento – com ênfase especial para o caso português – de uma sociologia cultural que tem a música enquanto tema-chave de suas preocupações; d) as contribuições específicas da sociologia para a análise dos gêneros musicais – com ênfase especial para o caso do rock alternativo.

scholarly journals SURGIMIENTO Y RUPTURA DE LA SOCIOLOGÍA ALEMANA: ENTRE EL IMPERIO, LA REPÚBLICA Y EL RÉGIMEN NAZI

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hellmut Wollmann
Keyword(s):  
Max Weber ◽  
Georg Simmel ◽  
Werner Sombart ◽  
Siglo Xx

El artículo describe la emergencia y ruptura de la sociología alemana desde sus inicios a principios del siglo XX hasta 1933 en la Universidad en Berlín, fundada en 1810 y desde entonces centro del mundo universitario alemán. Durante su fase inicial, fue modelada por Gustav Schmoller, un típico economista de corte reformista (de la “Escuela Histórica”). El despliegue disciplinario posterior de la sociología fue promovido por una cohorte de graduados, entre los cuales se destacaron Max Weber, Georg Simmel y Werner Sombart. Tras su florecimiento durante la década del veinte, fue “brutalmente interrumpido” (René König) cuando los nazis tomaron el poder, empujando a casi todos estos sociólogos al exilio o a la “emigración interna”. Desde 1933, una nueva cohorte ocupó la escena universitaria, suministrando, por medio del instituto universitario de Berlín y de su vinculación con la SS, la base ideológica y “científica” de las políticas expansionistas y genocidas.

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