The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms

by Georg Simmel

Book Overview

Published in 1918, The View of Life is Georg Simmel's final work. Famously deemed "the brightest man in Europe" by George Santayana, Simmel addressed diverse topics across his essayistic writings, which influenced scholars in aesthetics, epistemology, and sociology. Nevertheless, certain core issues emerged over the course of his career-the genesis, structure, and transcendence of social and cultural forms, and the nature and conditions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022627330X
• ISBN13: 9780226273303
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"