203 pages. 8vo. As new condition. Final work of Georg Simmel, addressing a variety of topics in aesthetics, ethics, sociology. Translation from 1918 version in German.

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Title: The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois
Publication Date: 2010
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0226757838
ISBN 13: 9780226757834
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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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 of authentic individuality, including the role of mindfulness regarding mortality. Composed not long before his death, The View of Life was, Simmel wrote, his “testament,” a capstone work of profound metaphysical inquiry intended to formulate his conception of life in its entirety.
Now Anglophone readers can at last read in full the work that shaped the argument of Heidegger’s Being and Time and whose extraordinary impact on European intellectual life between the wars was extolled by J�rgen Habermas. Presented alongside these seminal essays are aphoristic fragments from Simmel’s last journal, providing a beguiling look into the mind of one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers.

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Georg Simmel (1858–1918) taught at the University of Berlin and the University of Strasbourg. His many books include The Philosophy of Money, The View of Life, and Georg Simmel on Individuality andSocial Forms, the latter two both published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Daniel Silver is associate professor of sociology at the University of Toronto at Scarborough.

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