{"product_id":"the-view-of-life-four-metaphysical-essays-with-journal-aphorisms-9780226273303","title":"The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms","description":"\u003cp\u003e Published in 1918, \u003ci\u003eThe View of Life\u003c\/i\u003e is Georg Simmel's final work. Famously deemed \"the brightest man in Europe\" by George Santayana, Simmel addressed diverse topics across his essayistic writings, which influenced scholars in aesthetics, epistemology, and sociology. Nevertheless, certain core issues emerged over the course of his career--the genesis, structure, and transcendence of social and cultural forms, and the nature and conditions of authentic individuality, including the role of mindfulness regarding mortality. Composed not long before his death, \u003ci\u003eThe View of Life\u003c\/i\u003e was, Simmel wrote, his \"testament,\" a capstone work of profound metaphysical inquiry intended to formulate his conception of life in its entirety.\u003cbr\u003e Now Anglophone readers can at last read in full the work that shaped the argument of Heidegger's \u003ci\u003eBeing and Time\u003c\/i\u003e and whose extraordinary impact on European intellectual life between the wars was extolled by Jürgen Habermas. Presented alongside these seminal essays are aphoristic fragments from Simmel's last journal, providing a beguiling look into the mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Georg Simmel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/19\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226273303","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42711190339721,"sku":"9780226273303","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_d00315af-8097-4f16-86bd-b5a47e2bb257.jpg?v=1719563507","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-view-of-life-four-metaphysical-essays-with-journal-aphorisms-9780226273303","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}