Georg Simmel and the tragedy of culture in the age of technology

Authors

  • Francisco Rüdiger Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul

Keywords:

Culture, Technique, Subjectivity

Abstract

Georg Simmel is among the first Western critics to think about the future of culture in the age of technology. From the current judgments of his time (1900), the thinker did not see in this process a higher stage of the march of progress, relating it earlier to the crisis of culture to which Nietzsche had warned us.

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Author Biography

Francisco Rüdiger, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul

Teather at the Faculty of Communication of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul

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Published

2008-04-10

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Rüdiger, F. (2008). Georg Simmel and the tragedy of culture in the age of technology. Revista FAMECOS, 9(17), 161–169. Retrieved from https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/revistafamecos/article/view/3161

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Vol. 9 No. 17 (2002)

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Review

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