Georg Simmel's fin de siecle postmodernism and its Schopenhauerian episteme /

A recent resurgence in interest in the philosophy of Georg

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boenning, Peter
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1995.
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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
Item Description:"Major subject: Philosophy".
Vita.
Physical Description:vii, 108 leaves ; 28 cm.
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Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.