Four concepts of social science at Berlin university

Dilthey, Lazarus, Schmoller and Simmel

Klaus C. Köhnke

pp. 99-107

in: Michael Kaern, Bernard S. Phillips, Robert S. Cohen (eds), Georg Simmel and contemporary sociology, Berlin, Springer, 1990

Abstract

On the faculty of philosophy of Berlin University in the late nineteenth century there were three exponents of three different concepts of social science. Two of them were professors of the highest rank, all three were already of the highest merit, when the thirty-two-year-old Georg Simmel worked on his first book "On Social Differentiation" (1890).¹

Cited authors

Dilthey Wilhelm

Simmel Georg

Lazarus Moritz

Schmoller Kurt