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The View of Life

Name: The View of Life
ISBN: 022627330X

: Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms

Published in 1918, The View of Life 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, e

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“By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline, that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.”

— Georg Simmel, amazon.com

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