G'day Tom, I once read a piece by Simmel called something like 'How is society possible?', and remember being very impressed - there wouldn't happen to be a cyber-site for the below piece, would there? I think I'm going through a dead-white-guys thing just now and the below is quite irresistable. Cheers, Rob. >Speaking of Weber and Lukacs, how about Georg Simmel's Philosophy of Money? >Lukacs was a student both of Weber and Simmel and it was those two who >"tinged the spectacles" through which Lukacs first saw "Marx, the >sociologist". Simmel's Philosophy of Money should be required reading for >economists not least because, according to Simmel, "Not a single line of >these investigations is meant to be a statement about economics." > >"- so the fact that two people exchange their products is by no means simply >an economic fact. Such a fact - that is, one whose content would be >exhausted in the image that economics presents of it - does not exist." > > > >regards, > >Tom Walker >http://www.vcn.bc.ca/timework/covenant.htm > >
