Subjectivity and objectification the dilemmas of modernity according to Simmel and Weber
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https://doi.org/10.5433/2176-6665.2004v9n2p147Keywords:
Modernity, Subjectivity, Social theoryAbstract
The article explains the central position of the matter of social objectification in the works of Max Weber and Georg Simmel. It argues that the theoretical knowledge of these authors manifest, above all, the dilemma between the atrophy of the modern agent and the hypertrophy of an objective culture, characterized by a rationality that opposes the postulates in the individual freedom that influenced great part of the social and political theory.Downloads
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