Simmel discusses flirtation as a generalized type of social interaction
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Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel was a German sociologist, philosopher, and critic. A founding figure of sociology, his neo-Kantian approach helped establish sociological antipositivism, asking "What is society?" in analogy to Kant's "What is nature?". He pioneered analyses of individuality and social fragmentation.
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culture · German sociologist and philosopher (1858–1918) · philosopher · sociologist · university teacher · also Georg Simmel, Simmel
Born 1 March 1858 · Died 26 September 1918 · Q76849
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1918· 1 entry
Died 1918-09-26.
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1917· 1 entry
Simmel stopped reading the newspapers and withdrew to the Black Forest to finish the book The View of Life (Lebensanschauung)
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1915· 1 entry
Applied – without success – for a chair at the Heidelberg University
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1914· 1 entry
Simmel received an ordinary professorship with chair, at the then German University of Strassburg, but did not feel at home there
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1909· 1 entry
Simmel, Ferdinand Tönnies, Max Weber, and others, co-founded the German Society for Sociology
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1907· 1 entry
Though this fact was hidden until after Simmel's death
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1890· 1 entry
Georg married Gertrud Kinel, a philosopher who published under the pseudonym Marie-Luise Enckendorf, and under her own name
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1885· 1 entry
Simmel became a privatdozent at the University of Berlin, officially lecturing in philosophy but also in ethics, logic, pessimism, art, psychology and sociology
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1876· 1 entry
Simmel studied philosophy and history at the Humboldt University of Berlin, going on to receive his doctorate in 1881 for his thesis on Kantian philosophy of matter, titled "Das Wesen der Materie nach Kants Physischer Mo
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1874· 1 entry
When Georg was 16, leaving a sizable inheritance
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1858· 1 entry
Born 1858-03-01.
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