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| Experience: a) reflected perception, which can be compared with prior perceptions and can be processed linguistically. See also events, perception, sensations, empiricism. b) an event that is processed in the consciousness of a subject. No mere imagination. See also events, imagination, consciousness._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Georg Simmel on Experience - Dictionary of Arguments
Gadamer I 74 Experience/Life/Simmel/Gadamer: If one examines (...) the more precise definition of what (...) life means and what is effective in the concept of experience, it becomes clear that the relationship between life and experience is not that of a general to a particular. The unity of experience, determined by its intentional content, is rather in a direct relationship to the whole, to the totality of life. >Experience/Natorp. Simmel/Gadamer: It was above all Georg Simmel who analyzed the concept of life as the "reaching out of life beyond oneself"(1) in this aspect. The representation of the whole in the momentary experience obviously goes far beyond the fact of its determination by its object. Gadamer I 75 Every experience is, according to Schleiermacher, "a moment of infinite life"(2). Georg Simmel, who not only accompanies the rise of the word to a buzzword, but also shares the responsibility for it, sees the distinguishing feature of the concept of experience in the fact that "the objective becomes not only, as in cognition, an image and imagination, but moments of the process of life itself"(3). He points out that every experience has something of an adventure(4). But what is an adventure? Gadamer: The adventurer (...) ventures out into the unknown. 1. Georg Simmel, Lebensanschauung, 2. Aufl. 1922, p. 13; (cf. p. 247 ff.). 2. F. Schleiermacher, Über die Religion, II. Abschnitt. 3. Georg Simmel, Brücke und Tür, ed. Landmann, 1957, p. 8. 4. Vgl. Simmel, Philosophische Kultur. Gesammelte Essays 1911, p. 11—28._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Simmel I G. Simmel Die Probleme der Geschichtsphilosophie: Eine erkenntnistheoretische Studie Boston 2002 Gadamer I Hans-Georg Gadamer Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010 Gadamer II H. G. Gadamer The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986 German Edition: Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977 |
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