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Philosophie de la religion (Petite Bibliothèque Payot t. 1036)

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Que faire de la religion, que tout concourt à déqualifier, mais qui résiste, obstinément, à la menace de sa disparition ? Et qui résiste, non pas comme un vestige du passé, mais comme une ressource de mobilisation, une source de sens et de légitimité de l’action collective, un outil de construction de soi, en dépit de tout, parfois au risque du pire ? Cette question est au cœur des quatre principaux essais, dont deux sont inédits en français, que Simmel consacre, entre 1903 et 1912, à la religion et à la religiosité : « Du salut de l’âme », « La religion », « La personnalité de Dieu » et « La religion et le positionnement religieux aujourd’hui ». 


Avec une préface de Denis Pelletier, historien, spécialiste du catholicisme, directeur d'études à l'Ecole pratique des hautes études (Paris).

256 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 31, 1997

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Georg Simmel

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Georg Simmel was a major German sociologist, philosopher, and critic.

Simmel was one of the first generation of German sociologists: his neo-Kantian approach laid the foundations for sociological antipositivism, asking 'What is society?' in a direct allusion to Kant's question 'What is nature?', presenting pioneering analyses of social individuality and fragmentation. For Simmel, culture referred to "the cultivation of individuals through the agency of external forms which have been objectified in the course of history". Simmel discussed social and cultural phenomena in terms of "forms" and "contents" with a transient relationship; form becoming content, and vice versa, dependent on the context. In this sense he was a forerunner to structuralist styles of reasoning in the social sciences. With his work on the metropolis, Simmel was a precursor of urban sociology, symbolic interactionism and social network analysis. An acquaintance of Max Weber, Simmel wrote on the topic of personal character in a manner reminiscent of the sociological 'ideal type'. He broadly rejected academic standards, however, philosophically covering topics such as emotion and romantic love. Both Simmel and Weber's nonpositivist theory would inform the eclectic critical theory of the Frankfurt School.

Simmel's most famous works today are The Problems of the Philosophy of History (1892), The Philosophy of Money (1907), The Metropolis and Mental Life (1903), Soziologie (1908, inc. The Stranger, The Social Boundary, The Sociology of the Senses, The Sociology of Space, and On The Spatial Projections of Social Forms), and Fundamental Questions of Sociology (1917). He also wrote extensively on the philosophy of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, as well on art, most notably his book Rembrandt: An Essay in the Philosophy of Art (1916).

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رضایی و شریعتی چنان کلاف مسخره‌ای از لغاتی مثل «تعکیس» را تحویل مخاطب داده‌اند که هیچ چیز از زیمل نخواهید فهمید. در افتضاحی ترجمه همین بس که بعد از این‌که یکی‌ از جمله‌های نثر اصلی را در گوگل‌ترنسیلت زدم جمله‌ی بهتری گرفتم تا ترجمه‌ی این دو بزرگوار!
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July 2, 2017
There were parts to this books I found immensely interesting and some I didn't understand at all. This will be definitely be on my future rereading list. Simmer isn't a classic for nothing and his ideas remain relevant and thought provoking still in 2017.
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November 21, 2023
Веома тежак академски језик, не сме да се пропусти ниједна реч, не сме да се скрене ниједан поглед јер све постаје нејасно, мутно, компликовано и страно. Зимел захтева максималну пажњу, а за узврат бивамо награђени добрим идејама и запажањима једног од првих и најзначајнијих социолога (тако ми је рекла википедија): "Није поједини члан, него је цела група стајала под заштитом одређеног бога, што упућује на то да божанство јесте значило њихово јединство које превазилази и уједињује поједине чланове. Бог је, такорећи, име социјалног јединства.", као и да религија происходи из религиозности, и то не само и нужно појединца, него колектива.
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