A Heideggerian perspective of Georg Simmel’s
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A Heideggerian perspective of Georg Simmel’s The Philosophy of Money
A Heideggerian perspective of Georg Simmel’s The Philosophy of Money

Author(s): Piotr Augustyniak
Subject(s): Social Philosophy, Sociology
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne
Keywords: being-in-the-world; money; Dasein; Simmel; Heidegger

Summary/Abstract: In this article, I will juxtapose Simmel's theory with Martin Heidegger's thought. I intend to gain, by this, possibly fundamental (in the existential ontological, Heideggerian sense of the word) sight of his position. In Reading Simmel “by using Heidegger,” I will inquire about his interpretation of “being-in-the-world” and about a place that the phenomenon of money occupies within the limits of being-in-the-world. As it may turn out, this method of analysis will enable us to look at Heidegger's thought in a new way, revealing a certain kind of anachronism or at least a one-sided view of human beings. The question is as follows: whose interpretation of the existential-ontological structure of Dasein is more adequate, Simmel's or Heidegger's?

  • Issue Year: 204/2018
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 477-484
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English