The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms by Georg Simmel; Translator-John A. Y. Andrews; Translator-Donald N. Levine; Introduction-Daniel Silver - 2011-01-15

University Of Chicago Press. Used - Very Good. 2011. Hardcover. Very Good. (Subject: Books).

University of Chicago Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Book and jacket about as new. Nice book.

Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 6x0x9. Near fine hardcover with very good+ dust jacket. Interior appears free of markings, pages bright and crisp. Corners sharp, boards in great shape. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square. Unclipped dust jacket also looks great and arrives in protective Mylar wraps. 1st printing of this edition (with complete number line) by the University of Chicago Press, 2010. In English, translated by John A. Y. Andrews and Donald N. Levine, with an introduction by Levine and Daniel Silver. From a private collection. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New. 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 a variety of topics across his essayistic writings, which have influenced scholars in aesthetics, ethics, epistemology, and sociology. Nevertheless, a set of core issues emerged over the course of his career, most centrally the genesis, structure, and transcendence of social and cultural forms and the nature and genesis of authentic individuality. Composed in the years before his death, "The View of Life" was, according to Simmel, his 'testament', a capstone work of profound metaphysical inquiry intended to formulate his conception of life in its entirety. Now Anglophone readers can at last read in full the work that shaped the argument of Heidegger's "Being and Time" and whose extraordinary impact on European intellectual life between the wars has been extolled by Jurgen… Read More

Univ of Chicago Pr, 2010. Hardcover. New. 240 pages. 9.00x6.30x1.00 inches.