This text proposes a reflection on relationships of love in today's society from a Simmelian perspective, with a focus on a specific phenomenon: migration for love. Since the 1990s love-motivated migration has emerged in the discussion of the growing importance of social networks and new technologies. Using this social phenomenon that links love and migration as a strating point, the aim is to discuss its relation to some Simmelian concepts such as bonding, cohesion and sociability. This work highlights that migration for love is a typical example of a modern society in which individuals have had to seek new ways to relate and to love, which in turn affect living as a couple and building sentimental projects.
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The objective of the present article is to analyse the examination carried out by Walter Benjamin on the transformation of art and the aesthetic experience in his work The Work of Art in the Age of its Mechanical Reproducibility. The analysis will be conducted departing from Bolivar Echeverría’s reception of Benjamin’s essay -that is informed by Karl Marx’s Theory of Subsumption- with the aim of precising and potentiating Benjamin’s critique to capitalist technology and stimulating the discussion on the post-capitalist technological alternatives. In addition to presenting the essential ideas of Benjamin’s argument on the modern technique of artistic production and the modern technique of production of goods in general, alternating them with Echeverría’s interpretations in which he remarks the critical utopian potential within them, the critical conceptual convergence between Walter Benjamin and Karl Marx around the analysis of the essence of modern technique and its historicity, is presented.
本文旨在分析瓦尔特-本雅明（Walter Benjamin）在其著作《机械复制时代的艺术作品》（The Work of Art in the Age of its Mechanical Reproducibility）中对艺术变革和审美体验进行的研究。分析将从玻利瓦尔-埃切维里亚（Bolivar Echeverría）对本雅明文章的理解出发--以卡尔-马克思的《消费理论》（Theory of Subsumption）为依据--目的是对本雅明对资本主义技术的批判加以精确化和有力化，并激发对后资本主义技术替代方案的讨论。除了介绍本雅明关于现代艺术生产技术和现代商品生产技术的基本观点，以及埃切维里亚的解释（他在解释中指出了其中的乌托邦批判潜力）之外，还介绍了沃尔特-本雅明和卡尔-马克思围绕现代技术的本质及其历史性分析而形成的批判性概念趋同。
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In addition to his famous concept of the style of life or lifestyle, Simmel develops a more general concept of style in his writings on art and aesthetics. He makes clear in this context that the concept of style has a paradoxical structure that mediates between the general and the particular and that it always stands for the general. This concept of style allows Simmel to apply it in different research fields: sociology and social philosophy, ethics, art and aesthetics or intellectual history. In developing a theoretical framework for understanding Simmel’s concept of style, we will need to cross these disciplinary boundaries. We will examine the fields of arts and aesthetics as well as intellectual history so as to illustrate how Simmel applies the concept of style. This will also make the paradoxical structure of this concept clear
{"title":"On the Paradoxical Structure of the Concept of Style. A Theoretical Framework","authors":"Tim-Florian Steinbach","doi":"10.7202/1111902ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1111902ar","url":null,"abstract":"In addition to his famous concept of the style of life or lifestyle, Simmel develops a more general concept of style in his writings on art and aesthetics. He makes clear in this context that the concept of style has a paradoxical structure that mediates between the general and the particular and that it always stands for the general. This concept of style allows Simmel to apply it in different research fields: sociology and social philosophy, ethics, art and aesthetics or intellectual history. In developing a theoretical framework for understanding Simmel’s concept of style, we will need to cross these disciplinary boundaries. We will examine the fields of arts and aesthetics as well as intellectual history so as to illustrate how Simmel applies the concept of style. This will also make the paradoxical structure of this concept clear","PeriodicalId":485882,"journal":{"name":"Simmel studies","volume":"105 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141377911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In January 1917, an article by Georg Simmel, “Individualismens Former”, appeared in the Danish journal Spectator. Citing an editorial note herein, Simmel researchers have trusted that Simmel wrote the text in Danish and authorized the article (Rammstedt et al, 2015: 690; Christensen et al (eds.): 2019).On the contrary, we use archives, memoires and historical research to show that the editorial note in fact concealed the true provenance of Simmel’s text. The German propaganda machine during World War 1 secretly financed the journal Spectator. The editor therefore had a motivation to alter a crucial passage in the text.
1917 年 1 月，格奥尔格-西美尔（Georg Simmel）的一篇文章 "Individualismens Former "发表在丹麦期刊《旁观者》上。西美尔研究者引用了此处的编辑说明，认为西美尔用丹麦语撰写了这篇文章并授权发表（Rammstedt et al：690; Christensen et al (eds.)：相反，我们利用档案、回忆录和历史研究表明，编者按实际上掩盖了西美尔文章的真实出处。第一次世界大战期间，德国宣传机器秘密资助了《旁观者》杂志。因此，编辑有动机修改文中的一个关键段落。
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This article is devoted to an analysis of Simmel’s “metaphysical longing” (metaphysische Sehnsucht) and its consequences for his cultural and sociological analysis of the city and, consequently, modernity. Simmel’s “metaphysical longing” expresses itself equally in the sought-after relationship between part and whole, surface and depth, reality and idea. It intends to explore especially how this approach is developed in Simmel’s so-called minor essays, including the essays on historic Italian cities that are often referred to as those most characteristic of this metaphysical longing for unity. However, to understand the essence and characteristics of this approach, it is necessary to explore other minor, preparatory essays, coeval with and following the Philosophy of Money, which attest to Simmel’s path toward the construction of what he himself had defined as “sociological aesthetics,” that is, a space of analysis intermediate between philosophy and empirical sociological science. At the end of this path, we will see some stages of Simmel’s conceptual journey from nostalgia as Sehnsucht toward acceptance of the tragedy of culture, that is, the impossibility for man to find the lost unity of nature and spirit, form and life.
{"title":"In Search of a Unity or Persistence of Tragedy? On Simmel’s City Writings","authors":"Vincenzo Mele","doi":"10.7202/1108384ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1108384ar","url":null,"abstract":"This article is devoted to an analysis of Simmel’s “metaphysical longing” (metaphysische Sehnsucht) and its consequences for his cultural and sociological analysis of the city and, consequently, modernity. Simmel’s “metaphysical longing” expresses itself equally in the sought-after relationship between part and whole, surface and depth, reality and idea. It intends to explore especially how this approach is developed in Simmel’s so-called minor essays, including the essays on historic Italian cities that are often referred to as those most characteristic of this metaphysical longing for unity. However, to understand the essence and characteristics of this approach, it is necessary to explore other minor, preparatory essays, coeval with and following the Philosophy of Money, which attest to Simmel’s path toward the construction of what he himself had defined as “sociological aesthetics,” that is, a space of analysis intermediate between philosophy and empirical sociological science. At the end of this path, we will see some stages of Simmel’s conceptual journey from nostalgia as Sehnsucht toward acceptance of the tragedy of culture, that is, the impossibility for man to find the lost unity of nature and spirit, form and life.","PeriodicalId":485882,"journal":{"name":"Simmel studies","volume":"6 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138951061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Simmel’s concern is to analyse the relationship between subjective and objective dimensions and at the same time to search for a horizon of meaning that sustains this relationship. A topic that Simmel analysed from many viewpoints. The focus of this paper is mainly on the socio-anthropological point of view. According to Simmel, when the subjective and objective dimensions are seen as contradictory, the integrity of the individual is undermined. The subject's experience in modernity is submitted to a logic characterised by a strong dualism. Nevertheless, the relationship between the subjective and the objective dimension shapes our experience: society could be seen as the progressive development of this nexus. Simmel suggests that one and the other poles are complementary in a relationship of reciprocity and mutual limitation - an expression of the original duality of life which embodies “the whole being”.
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This paper reconstructs Simmel’s arguments on coquetry in light of his Philosophy of Money. There are remarkable similarities between money and flirtation as Simmel understood them. Both are characterized by a paradoxical form of desire for which satisfaction is synonymous with dissatisfaction. Moreover, both are the locus of a specific type of power (i.e., power as pure possibility) and a corresponding kind of submission (experienced as adventure). Yet, unlike money, coquetry can become play for play’s sake. It thus symbolizes life in a different way. Located between economy and art, flirtation permits reconciling opposites that in money appear in maximum tension.
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