Georg Simmel's fin de siecle postmodernism and its Schopenhauerian episteme /
A recent resurgence in interest in the philosophy of Georg
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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1995.
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | A recent resurgence in interest in the philosophy of Georg because, unlike most postmodernists, he does not slide into examination of his life and thought, particularly in light of extremely similar to ours. false, and the relevance of his thought for our postmodern generally negative stereotypes of Simmel can be shown to be generation who, like postmodernists, rebelled against the grand narratives of the Enlightenment and lived in an era intellectually, although this debt is generally not life. Simmel's era was given articulation by the philosophy misperceived. Simmel's philosophy is relevant not only of Arthur Schopenhauer, to whom Simmel is greatly indebted particularly in light of his being embraced by pessimism regarding the future. Simmel was a member of a postmodernists, he must be perceived from the perspective of recognized. I argue that to understand Simmel properly, Schopenhauerian roots of his philosophy. In this manner, Simmel, especially by postmodernists, warrants a closer stereotyped by rootlessness and a decline in meaning for the fact that he is poorly understood and generally the realm of nihilism, although he did maintain an ambivalent the times in which he lived, which entails examining the world becomes clear in that the world in which he lived was |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Philosophy". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | vii, 108 leaves ; 28 cm. Also available online. Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |