Abstract

BORGES, Bento Itamar. A presença de Simmel na obra de Habermas. Educação e Filosofia [online]. 2009, vol.23, n.46, pp.247-261. ISSN 1982-596X.

This paper aims to collecting texts in which Habermas quotes Georg Simmel (1858-1918), a very creative and popular author, although rejected by German academic institutions. Besides having written two rare and apparently not related titles - a Philosophy of Lave and a Philosophy of money - , he has founded a new discipline, the Philosophy of Culture, which influenced Adorno and Horkheimer in their thesis concerning mass culture. Habermas joined in a radio conference a large group of Jew philosophers among German intellectuals up to the post World War II period; this helps us to understand how such prejudices against Simmel, specially his racial origin, had inhibited his career and the reception of his works.

Keywords : Habermas; Simmel; German Philosophy.

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