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Georg Simmel - Tyngdens æstetik

Georg Simmel - Tyngdens æstetik

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Georg Simmel (1858-1918) wrote his ground-breaking essays from old, exuberant Europe. Simmel is one of the founders of urban sociology and writes about Rome, Florence and Venice. As the center of several intellectual circles, he was an absolute protagonist in his time, and he was friends with, among others, Auguste Rodin, Rainer Maria Rilke and Max Weber. The aesthetics of weight presents a selection of Simmel's writings in the form of ten essays, which are relevant to both the architect and the art enthusiast. The book is illustrated with works by i.a. Michelangelo, Bernini, Toyokuni I, Christen Kobke, Rodin and JF Willumsen. Joachim Wiewi ura has written an introduction to Simmel's time and thinking. Joachim Wiewiura (b. 1987), Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Copenhagen, exchange stay at the University of Oxford and MIT. He is employed at the Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, and has, among other things, published the books Publicity's space (2019), Simmel (2019), If Schools Didn't Exist (2020), The history of political philosophy (2022) and Publicity and legitimacy (2024).