Georg Simmel albo mieszczaństwo w ruinie
Georg Simmel or the bourgeois in ruins

Author(s): Szymon Wróbel
Subject(s): 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: bourgeois; money; ruins; sociability; value; life
Summary/Abstract: Th e following article is devoted to the thought of the German sociologist Georg Simmel.It is an attempt at drawing conclusions on the “bourgeois” and “bourgeois sociology”,understood as a certain “culture of life”. Th e author tries to avoid interpreting Simmel’sconcepts as a “classic of late modernity” and instead considers the intellectual eff ect ofSimmel’s work, i.e. attempts to start a refl ection on the post-bourgeois world. Th e mainthemes of the analysis are: sociability, money, life, value, ruins. As a result, the authortries to see in Simmel a daring “partisan thinker”.

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