The View of Life
Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms
- Contents
- Review Quotes

Introduction
Note on the Translation
I. Life as Transcendence
II. The Turn toward Ideas
III. Death and Immortality
IV. The Law of the Individual
Appendix: Journal Aphorisms, with an Introduction
Notes from Simmel’s "Metaphysics" File“Although Simmel has written the most profound and stimulating book in sociology, in my opinion, that has ever been written, he was not in the first instance a sociologist but a philosopher.”
“Following World War II, neither in Germany nor the United States did Simmel achieve an intellectual presence that would lead one to suspect the extent of the influence he exerted on his contemporaries.”
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