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• Christian Love (Simmel's Reconstruction)

  Simmel's philosophical reconstruction of Christian love as a distinct trans-vital love-form, structurally opposed to universal-philanthropy: Christian love embraces the total person — sinner as sinner, "without that 'in spite of'" (Oakes p…

• Georg Simmel

  Berlin philosopher and sociologist (1858–1918) whose late Lebensphilosophie — the doctrine that life produces autonomous strata that transcend life — supplies one of the cardinal twentieth-century structural-philosophical alternatives to B…

• Individualism of Love

  Simmel's spectrum from love-by-type to love-by-individuality — anchored in the contrast between Goethe's two cardinal couples: Faust/Gretchen (love by type; replaceability remains possible in principle) and Eduard/Ottilie (in Wahlverwandts…

• Love as a Formative Category

  Simmel's thesis in On Love (a fragment) (1923): love is one of the great formative categories of existence, joining the object of knowledge, the object of faith, and the object of valuation as a fundamental category of the subject-world re…

• More-than-Life

  Simmel's philosophical structure of life's self-transcendence: life produces, from its own energies, autonomous strata that exceed mere life — cognitive, religious, aesthetic, social, technical, normative — and these trans-vital strata ret…

• On Love (a fragment) Georg Simmel, 1984

  Author: Georg Simmel · Year: 1984 (translation; original German 1923, composition ca. 1907–1918) · Type: fragment

• The Tragedy of Love (Simmel)

  Simmel's philosophical articulation of love's tragic structure: love is tragic not because external fate destroys it, not because lovers collide with ethical substances, not because of any hamartia — but because love grows out of the life-…

• Universal Philanthropy

  Simmel's articulation of a distinct trans-vital love-form: love directed at "everything that bears a human face" (Oakes p. 211), abstracted from individuality, kindred to but structurally distinct from both cosmic eros (pantheism of love)…