Dear Eugene,
thanks for sharing your knowledge.
I am not sure about your classification of Simmel as a neokantian. But
when using the a priori as distinction criterion then Simmel is as much
neokantian as Ernst Cassirer. I believe both of them go beyond it.
I have never been into biosemiotic
Most interesting! Thank you Gene.
I have been reading Simmel lately. Not been happy with it. But Simmel
seems to be quite to the vogue, in Finland that is.
Kirsti
Eugene Halton kirjoitti 27.11.2016 19:25:
Dear Stefan,
Interesting. One rarely ever hears of a student of Simmel.
Desp
Dear Stefan,
Interesting. One rarely ever hears of a student of Simmel.
Despite widespread appeal as a lecturer in Berlin, Simmel was denied
a regular professorship for decades because of anti-semitism. He was
Privatdozent at Berlin from 1885 to 1901, then Ausserordentlicher Professor
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Clark, list,
So this Burkeanism is a quite flexible way of conservativism! I like it, it reminds me of a neuron, if "burden" is replaced with "potential". Or of a Schmitt-trigger (electronic digital switch which fires only at a certain input potential). It even redefines the meaning of "tradition
