Zum Anfassen: Phänomenologische Überlegungen im Anschluss an Georg Simmel

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.

“One in many: Sounding of the heart”: The meaning of divine revelation in the kakure kirishitan land

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-284
Author(s):  
Fumitaka Matsuoka
Keyword(s):  
Christian Faith ◽  
Divine Revelation ◽  
Christian Identity ◽  
Civic Discourse ◽  
Special Character ◽  
Historical Identity ◽  
Divine Life ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One

The question to be explored is that of how far a Christian identity can be stretched and yet still remain “Christian” and who determines the limits and for what reasons. This question is explored in light of the kakure kirishitan (hidden Christians) studies in Japan. More precisely, the question is that of how the historically singular epistemology embodied in the “one-God” understandings of Christianity has played out in multiple readings of reality, a “many gods” epistemology, in Japan. This is an exploration of the “meaning of divine revelation of Christ” set within the context of ecclesia semper reformanda. I would claim that the “character of love” as defined by Ernst Troeltsch’s notion of the revelation of Christ (“In our earthly experiences the Divine Life is not One, but Many. But to apprehend the One in the Many constitutes the special character of love”), which is a distinct Christian faith paradigm, contrary to the popular paradigm in the academic and civic discourse of “one in many,” takes on the character of “the sounding of the heart.” Even when the historical identity of Christ is extensively eroded, the “sounding” speaks to people beyond the difference of the worlds with a language that is so intimate that it profoundly grasps the heart.

scholarly journals La imagen sociológica. Crítica y autorreflexividad en la Sociología de Georg Simmel

2017 ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Lucía Wegelin
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Georg Simmel ◽  
Urban Modernity ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Urban Image ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Para Determinar ◽  
The Way

Resumen:Este escrito se sumerge al interior de la obra de Georg Simmel con el propósito de recuperar la impronta crítica de su Sociología a través de la diferenciación entre dos modos en los que la imagen aparece en sus reflexiones. Se construirá aquí esa diferencia entre la imagen urbana y la imagen sociológica como crítica de la anterior, realizando un recorrido por el movimiento autorreflexivo de su pensamiento. Su sociología será interrogada en relación con sus diagnósticos sobre la modernidad para determinar el modo en el que sus conceptos sociológicos cargan con su crítica hacia la modernidad urbana. Por lo tanto, los objetivos de este trabajo son: a-Distinguir el lugar de la imagen en los diagnósticos de Simmel sobre la cultura moderna; b-Determinar las rasgos imaginales de los conceptos sociológicos simmelianos; c-Interrogar el modo en el que las imágenes sociológicas intervienen críticamente sobre la cultura moderna.Palabras clave: Simmel, imagen sociológica, imagen urbana.Abstract:This paper explores the work of Georg Simmel in order to recover the critical stamp of his sociology through his two modes of image. This study develops the difference between the urban image and the sociological image as a criticism of the former, following the self-reflexive movement of Simmel's thought. Simmel's diagnosis of modernity is questioned in order to determine the way in which his sociological concepts imply a criticism of urban modernity. The objectives of this study are: a) to define the place of image within Simmel's diagnosis of modern culture, b) to determine the imaginal characteristics of Simmel's sociological concepts, and c) to question the way sociological images critically intervene in modern culture.Key words: Simmel, sociological image, urban image.

Indivíduo e Realidade

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (27) ◽  
pp. 135-155
Author(s):  
João Paulo de Oliveira Cruz Mendes ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Georg Simmel ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Philosophical Intuition ◽  
Double Approach ◽  
Entire World ◽  
The Difference ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Web

This article is about the influence of Georg Simmel on Siegfried Kracauer’s thought and analysis method, and also on the difference between the two. Kracauer was Simmel’s pupil at Berlin in 1907, and exposed his thought and method in an essay (Georg Simmel) published for the first time in 1963, forty-two years after being written, in a collection of papers intituled Das Ornament der Masse. Starting from a heuristic principle - which could be put like this: all expressions of spiritual/intellectual life are interrelated in countless ways; no single one can be extricated from this web of relations, since each is enmeshed in the web with all other such expressions - , Kracauer distinguished, in Simmel’s method, two different ways of linking the different phenomena: discovering its essential congruence [Wesenszusammengehörigkeit] or by analogy [Analogie]. The first method shows how disparate phenomena could have the same source. The second tries to demonstrate similitudes between phenomena, and it is, in a certain degree, an abstract construction. This double approach of reality synchronizes Kracauer’s worries on the culture fragmentation and his attempt to overcome it. This is most clear when he criticizes Simmel, in a forward step, of being in default of metaphor [Gleichnis]. Metaphor is, in Kracauer’s point of view, not only a relation between objects, like Simmel tries, but a relation between subject and object, and the representation by a particular image of individual things as much as of the entire world. Metaphor carries in it itself the philosophical intuition that is lacking in Simmel’s oeuvre.

scholarly journals La imagen sociológica. Crítica y autorreflexividad en la Sociología de Georg Simmel

2017 ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Lucía Wegelin
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Georg Simmel ◽  
Urban Modernity ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Urban Image ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Para Determinar ◽  
The Way

Resumen:Este escrito se sumerge al interior de la obra de Georg Simmel con el propósito de recuperar la impronta crítica de su Sociología a través de la diferenciación entre dos modos en los que la imagen aparece en sus reflexiones. Se construirá aquí esa diferencia entre la imagen urbana y la imagen sociológica como crítica de la anterior, realizando un recorrido por el movimiento autorreflexivo de su pensamiento. Su sociología será interrogada en relación con sus diagnósticos sobre la modernidad para determinar el modo en el que sus conceptos sociológicos cargan con su crítica hacia la modernidad urbana. Por lo tanto, los objetivos de este trabajo son: a-Distinguir el lugar de la imagen en los diagnósticos de Simmel sobre la cultura moderna; b-Determinar las rasgos imaginales de los conceptos sociológicos simmelianos; c-Interrogar el modo en el que las imágenes sociológicas intervienen críticamente sobre la cultura moderna.Palabras clave: Simmel, imagen sociológica, imagen urbana.Abstract:This paper explores the work of Georg Simmel in order to recover the critical stamp of his sociology through his two modes of image. This study develops the difference between the urban image and the sociological image as a criticism of the former, following the self-reflexive movement of Simmel's thought. Simmel's diagnosis of modernity is questioned in order to determine the way in which his sociological concepts imply a criticism of urban modernity. The objectives of this study are: a) to define the place of image within Simmel's diagnosis of modern culture, b) to determine the imaginal characteristics of Simmel's sociological concepts, and c) to question the way sociological images critically intervene in modern culture.Key words: Simmel, sociological image, urban image.

scholarly journals Lojalność i wiarołomstwo jako oś Cezariańskiej narracji poświęconej wojnie: propaganda i kontekst kulturowy w Commentarii de bello Gallico

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-80
Author(s):  
Michał Norbert Faszcza
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
The Other ◽  
Georg Simmel ◽  
Political Propaganda ◽  
War Narrative ◽  
Cultural Roots ◽  
Military Campaigns ◽  
The Difference ◽  
War Propaganda

Loyalty and deception as the axis of Caesar’s narrative concerning war: propaganda and the cultural context in Commentarii de bello Gallico There is no doubt that justifying Caesar’s subsequent military campaigns using the argument of barbarians’ disloyalty is too frequent to treat them in a different way than the immanent part of his literary creations. Valuation of their conduct in terms of loyalty – deception had to be based on a pattern having strong cultural roots, otherwise it would not fulfill its role. Explaining specifics of Caesar’s war narrative solely by the requirements of political propaganda does not appear to be sufficient, so cultural context should be considered as well. The author casts in doubt the possibility of direct transferring the Greek concept of ‘barbarity’ into Caesar’s narration, paying attention to the Roman perception of the ‘other’ as understood by Georg Simmel instead. Consequently, it is possible to explain why some Gauls were described as loyal, while others were portrayed as prone to betrayal, although they belonged to the same cultural circle. The essence of the difference was the attitude towards Roman rule, not only the non‑Roman origin or different lifestyle. Determinants such as the perennial fear of Gauls (metus Gallicus) and the conviction of Rome’s unique destiny can not be also omitted, especially since they are closely related to the first aspect.

The Origin of the Moon

1962 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 149-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. L. Ruskol
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Solar System ◽  
The Moon ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Origin Of The Moon

The difference between average densities of the Moon and Earth was interpreted in the preceding report by Professor H. Urey as indicating a difference in their chemical composition. Therefore, Urey assumes the Moon's formation to have taken place far away from the Earth, under conditions differing substantially from the conditions of Earth's formation. In such a case, the Earth should have captured the Moon. As is admitted by Professor Urey himself, such a capture is a very improbable event. In addition, an assumption that the “lunar” dimensions were representative of protoplanetary bodies in the entire solar system encounters great difficulties.

Influence of Cell Wall Composition on the Fossilisation of Bacteria and the Implications for the Search for Early Life Forms

1997 ◽  
Vol 161 ◽  
pp. 491-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances Westall
Keyword(s):  
Cell Wall ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Cation Binding ◽  
Positive Bacterium ◽  
Gram Positive ◽  
Gram Positive Bacteria ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Hydrothermal Sediments ◽  
Identification Of Bacteria ◽  
The Difference

AbstractThe oldest cell-like structures on Earth are preserved in silicified lagoonal, shallow sea or hydrothermal sediments, such as some Archean formations in Western Australia and South Africa. Previous studies concentrated on the search for organic fossils in Archean rocks. Observations of silicified bacteria (as silica minerals) are scarce for both the Precambrian and the Phanerozoic, but reports of mineral bacteria finds, in general, are increasing. The problems associated with the identification of authentic fossil bacteria and, if possible, closer identification of bacteria type can, in part, be overcome by experimental fossilisation studies. These have shown that not all bacteria fossilise in the same way and, indeed, some seem to be very resistent to fossilisation. This paper deals with a transmission electron microscope investigation of the silicification of four species of bacteria commonly found in the environment. The Gram positiveBacillus laterosporusand its spore produced a robust, durable crust upon silicification, whereas the Gram negativePseudomonas fluorescens, Ps. vesicularis, andPs. acidovoranspresented delicately preserved walls. The greater amount of peptidoglycan, containing abundant metal cation binding sites, in the cell wall of the Gram positive bacterium, probably accounts for the difference in the mode of fossilisation. The Gram positive bacteria are, therefore, probably most likely to be preserved in the terrestrial and extraterrestrial rock record.

Structuring, Motions and Shapes of Corona Emission Line Profiles

1994 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 421-426
Author(s):  
N. F. Tyagun
Keyword(s):  
Emission Line ◽  
Filling Factor ◽  
Direct Relationship ◽  
Coronal Plasma ◽  
Line Of Sight ◽  
Line Profiles ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Yellow Line ◽  
Red Line

AbstractThe interrelationship of half-widths and intensities for the red, green and yellow lines is considered. This is a direct relationship for the green and yellow line and an inverse one for the red line. The difference in the relationships of half-widths and intensities for different lines appears to be due to substantially dissimilar structuring and to a set of line-of-sight motions in ”hot“ and ”cold“ corona regions.When diagnosing the coronal plasma, one cannot neglect the filling factor - each line has such a factor of its own.

Difference Fourier Analysis of Glucose Embedded and Frozen Hydrated Purple Membrane

1982 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 74-75
Author(s):  
Jules S. Jaffe ◽  
Robert M. Glaeser
Keyword(s):  
Purple Membrane ◽  
Data Set ◽  
High Resolution Data ◽  
X Ray ◽  
X Ray Crystallography ◽  
Fourier Techniques ◽  
Versus Protein ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Difference Fourier ◽  
Ideal Method

Although difference Fourier techniques are standard in X-ray crystallography it has only been very recently that electron crystallographers have been able to take advantage of this method. We have combined a high resolution data set for frozen glucose embedded Purple Membrane (PM) with a data set collected from PM prepared in the frozen hydrated state in order to visualize any differences in structure due to the different methods of preparation. The increased contrast between protein-ice versus protein-glucose may prove to be an advantage of the frozen hydrated technique for visualizing those parts of bacteriorhodopsin that are embedded in glucose. In addition, surface groups of the protein may be disordered in glucose and ordered in the frozen state. The sensitivity of the difference Fourier technique to small changes in structure provides an ideal method for testing this hypothesis.

Destruction of Actin Filaments by Osmium Tetroxide

1977 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 466-467
Author(s):  
P. Maupin-Szamier ◽  
T. D. Pollard
Keyword(s):  
Actin Filaments ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Osmium Tetroxide ◽  
Rabbit Muscle ◽  
Muscle Actin ◽  
Sodium Phosphate Buffer ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Rates Of Decay ◽  
Short Time

We have studied the destruction of rabbit muscle actin filaments by osmium tetroxide (OSO4) to develop methods which will preserve the structure of actin filaments during preparation for transmission electron microscopy.Negatively stained F-actin, which appears as smooth, gently curved filaments in control samples (Fig. 1a), acquire an angular, distorted profile and break into progressively shorter pieces after exposure to OSO4 (Fig. 1b,c). We followed the time course of the reaction with viscometry since it is a simple, quantitative method to assess filament integrity. The difference in rates of decay in viscosity of polymerized actin solutions after the addition of four concentrations of OSO4 is illustrated in Fig. 2. Viscometry indicated that the rate of actin filament destruction is also dependent upon temperature, buffer type, buffer concentration, and pH, and requires the continued presence of OSO4. The conditions most favorable to filament preservation are fixation in a low concentration of OSO4 for a short time at 0°C in 100mM sodium phosphate buffer, pH 6.0.

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