Simmel's sociology in relation to Schopenhauer's philosophy

pp. 181-197

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

Abstract

In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom argues that some important turn of the century thinkers have been misunderstood, and their thought has been vulgarized in the process of incorporating them into contemporary American thought. For example, Bloom (1987, pp. 149—50) writes:

Cited authors

Simmel Georg

Schopenhauer Arthur