Georg Simmel (1 March 1858 – 28 September 1918) was a German sociologist philosopher and critic.Simmel was one of the first generation of German sociologists: his neo-Kantian approach laid the foundations for sociological antipositivism asking ‘What is society?’ in a direct allusion to Kant’s question ‘What is nature?’ presenting pioneering analyses of social individuality and fragmentation.
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birth date
1858-03-01
birth place
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
death date
1918-09-28
death place
Berlin, German Empire, Germany, Strasbourg
era
19th-century philosophy
influenced
Max Weber, Mark Granovetter, Lewis A. Coser, Harrison White, Barry Wellman
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