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Sztuka w eseistycznym ujęciu Georga Simmla. Próba syntezy

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Czakon D.
Estetyka i Krytyka
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2013
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issue 2(29)
27-42
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The purpose of this article is to describe the notion of art in accordance with Georg Simmel’s views. The author presents this philosopher’s stance by referring primarily to his essays related to art, such as On Aesthetic Quantities, The Picture Frame: An Aesthetic Study, and The Ear: An Aesthetic Study. The article focuses on the essence and the meaning of the art and the problem of the modern art.
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A Heideggerian perspective of Georg Simmel’s The Philosophy of Money

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Augustyniak P.
Polish Sociological Review
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2018
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vol. 204
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issue 4
477-485
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In this article, I will juxtapose Simmel’s theory with Martin Heidegger’s thought. I intend to gain, bythis, possibly fundamental (in the existential ontological, Heideggerian sense of the word) sight of his position.In Reading Simmel “by using Heidegger,” I will inquire about his interpretation of “being-in-the-world” andabout a place that the phenomenon of money occupies within the limits of being-in-the-world. As it may turn out,this method of analysis will enable us to look at Heidegger’s thought in a new way, revealing a certain kind ofanachronism or at least a one-sided view of human beings. The question is as follows: whose interpretation of theexistential-ontological structure of Dasein is more adequate, Simmel’s or Heidegger’s?
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Ruins: Between Past and Present, Between Culture and Nature

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Frydryczak B.
Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
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2023
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vol. 7
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issue 2
9-16
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The main question of the essay is: do ruins need a new definition? Ruins are not only destroyed architecture, but also everything that has been associated with it in the process of life. From the perspective of the question, the concept of ruins should be understood much broader than just architecturally, and they should be assigned not to the past but to the present, or rather between past and present. If we consider ruins from the standpoint which situates them between culture and nature, there opens up another opportunity: here ruins are found on the juncture of nature and culture, becoming a natureculture hybrid. Here, degradation encompasses the cultural sense in the first place and the expectations it involves, but not from the perspective of nature. The order of nature translates into a new “life” of the ruin, which is attributed a new functionality, subordinated to other – non-anthropocentric – goals and values. Concluding, ruins require a new approach and a new definition that does not condemn them to degradation, but sees hope in the revitalizing forces of nature that ensure for them a new status and a different ontological significance.
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Is Money a Linguistic Form? Integrating Simmel’s Construction of Monetary Value into the Framework of the Philosophy of Language

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Leder A.
Polish Sociological Review
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2018
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vol. 204
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issue 4
515-526
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In his study, the author discusses his hypothesis of money as a linguistic form, one understood sensu stricto, as Ferdinand de Saussure would. This approach seems to be the key to explaining some important phenomena: the so-called ‘economics imperialism’ in the social sciences and the specific character of economic language, as seen from the perspective of the humanities. Both the ‘uncanny character’ of economic terms and ‘economics imperialism’ appear in this text as symptoms, or ways in which economic signs, especially money understood as a sign, specifically manifest themselves. The logical analysis of the construction of these signs-analysis based on Saussure’s and Simmel’s propositions-is the main topic of this article. First, the author revisits a well-known parallel between formal structures of linguistic and monetary signs developed in Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics. Second, a crucial difference in these structures is presented and theoretically explained using tools developed by Georg Simmel. The author goes on to consider whether this difference locates the monetary sign outside the realm of language per se. Finally, by applying certain claims made by Ludwig Wittgenstein on the limits of language, the author develops his hypothesis that money is a linguistic sign, but a specific one; it is a kind of a ‘border phenomenon.’ In this text, the author proposes the term ‘linguistic form’ to distinguish this kind of sign. Some theoretical and social consequences of this state of affairs are proposed; inter alia the immanent social antagonism between the symbolic articulation of the social sphere and the economic one.
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Morbus hermeneuticus - wyzwanie współczesnej humanistyki

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Budzowska M.
Collectanea Philologica
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2011
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vol. 14
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The issue that is taken in the article concerns the problem of the essence of hermeneutics. Taking into consideration the Herbert Schnädelbach’s conception of “morbus hermeneuticus”, the author develops the reflection on the status of hermeneutics in philosophy. In the discussion about ideas of freedom of cognitive process the views of M. Polanyi, O. Marquard, R. Girard, G. Simmel, J. Baudrillard, M. Foucault, J. Derrida are presented. In addition, the author introduces the concepts of chaos theory and theory of contingency. Based on the indicated culture’s texts author tries to find a positive evaluation of hermeneutic method, which should be understood in a more extended sense and thus not seen as a state of disease (morbus hermeneuticus).
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Georg Simmel jako przewodnik po utopiach, w których rzeczy ludzi łączą, a nie dzielą

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Waśkiewicz A.
Przegląd Socjologiczny
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2019
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vol. LXVIII (68)
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issue 1
99-118
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Artykuł przedstawia w szerokim kontekście relację wymiany według Georga Simmla jako podstawową formę życia społecznego. Zestawia wymianę dóbr z zarysem trzech wyszczególnionych przez siebie nurtów utopii, w których rzeczy ludzi łączą, a nie dzielą. Każdy z tych nurtów odrzuca wymianę towarową, przeciwstawiając jej reglamentowanie rzeczy we wspólnocie, odtowarowienie poprzez ich wymianę w charakterze darów oraz odwartościowanie (w sensie ekonomicznym) poprzez zapewnienie społeczeństwu ich obfitości. Pierwszemu nurtowi patronuje Platon w Prawach, drugiemu Arystoteles z koncepcją przyjaźni ze względu na korzyść, trzeciemu Francis Bacon jako autor Nowej Atlantydy – pierwszej utopii rządzonej przez ludzi nauki. Po kryzysie roku 2008 te trzy nurty zarysowały się ponownie w myśli społecznej, występując pod nazwą gospodarki dobra wspólnego, społeczeństwa postwzrostu, ekonomii współdzielenia, społeczeństwa krańcowych kosztów zerowych czy internetu przedmiotów. Według autora trzy wyróżnione przez niego w historii nurty odpowiadają dziś utopiom przedkapitalistycznym, „akapitalistycznym” i postkapitalistycznym. Simmlowska analiza instytucji wymiany pozwala uchwycić specyfikę dawnych projektów, a także wskazać na zasadnicze defekty uspołecznienia w nowych.
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The article presents in a wider context Georg Simmel’s idea of exchange as a key institution of social life. In particular, the exchange of commodities is juxtaposed with the pivotal institutions of a utopian social order that is deprived of it: the rationing of goods, decommodification of goods that are exchanged as gifts, and the depreciation of their values in an affluent society. These ideas can be traced back as early as Plato’s Laws, Aristotle’s idea of friendship for benefit, and New Atlantis by Francis Bacon – the first imaginary state run by scientists. After the 2008 economic crisis, those three concepts reemerged under the names of the public good economy, post-growth society, sharing economy, zero marginal cost society, the Internet of things, etc. According to the author, the three historical utopian currents distinguished in this article foreshadowed the present-day pre-capitalist, a-capitalist, and post-capitalist utopias. Simmel’s analysis helps to specify the differences between the old utopias as well as to pinpoint the deficit of Vergesellschaftung (sociation) in the new ones.
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The Commodification of Human Body

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Tittenbrun J.
Nowa Krytyka
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2016
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issue 36
7-28
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The purpose of the present paper is to analyse a number of aspects to today’s commodification of human body; as the latter is inherently gendered, the following comments also have the said dimension to them, with particular, but not exclusive reference to the female body.
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Homo Libidinous and the Economy of Desire: Rereading Simmel’s The Philosophy of Money after Freud

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Markowska B.
Polish Sociological Review
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2020
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vol. 204
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issue 4
486-498
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Georg Simmel’sThe Philosophy of Money([1900],2004) contains one of the most pertinent and sub-tle diagnoses of modernity-a critique of economic reason moved by desire. This article shows that Simmel’sdialectic of desire has a significant affinity with Freud’s economic point of view in terms of the psychic appa-ratus being ruled by the pleasure principle. Considering these two libidinal economies I will focus on how thefigure ofhomo oeconomicustransforms intohomo libidinousand why money has become the symbol and formof modern life. The assumption is that money is not solely the fundamental principle of social reality-what wecall hyper-modernity or late capitalism-but the reality principle as such.
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Simmel and the Posthuman: Money as the God of Bad Infinity

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Kuźniarz B.
Polish Sociological Review
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2018
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vol. 204
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issue 4
447-462
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Contrary to a longstanding tradition of associating the attractive force of the modern economy with it sunbridled materialism, I claim in my paper that the power of capitalism lies in the transfer of human desire into the realm of the abstract. Our passionate attachment to the capitalist system stems from its money-mediated capabilityto organize the infinite: money is a special form of structuring infinity, which I term the “count to infinity.” Thepaper develops this concept, drawing on three in-depth analyses offered by Georg Simmel in his The Philosophy of Money: first, the infinite structure of value, or, money as bad infinity; second, money as the pure vehicle of life;and third, money as the “absolute means.” It is my main contention that by moving human desire into the realm ofthe abstract, money has provided life with a vessel to elevate itself to a higher plane of energy, thus transcending the bounds of the human species.
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The Dyad and the Third Party: The Traces of Simmel’s Distinction in Phenomenology and Family Studies

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Kostrova E.
Avant
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2018
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vol. 9
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issue 2
187-202
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The paper confronts Georg Simmel’s distinction between the dyad and the triad with the phenomenological analysis of analogous structures undertaken by E. Lévinas, B. Waldenfels, and J.-L. Marion. Simmel insists on keeping the dyad and the triad apart while only the triad is considered worthy of sociological research. On the contrary, phenomenologists reveal deep interrelation between the relationship with the other and the third party where the latter is actually co-present in the dyad. The presupposed link between the two and the three implies a different understanding of sociality that would respect its members in their uniqueness, unlike the world of interchangeable individualities common for social science. The third party can appear as the dimension of law and the ordinary (in Waldenfels), as the other of the other and the figure of humanity (in Lévinas), or as the child in the case of erotic relationship (in Marion). The last aspect of the third party provides a link to family studies. A brief outline of the situation illustrates oscillation between the triadic and dyadic interpretations of the family with the apparent prevalence of the dyad in recent decades.
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