Simmel

American  

[zim-uhl] / ˈzɪm əl /

noun

1. Georg 1858–1918, German sociologist and philosopher.

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Example Sentences

Yet as Kwame Anthony Appiah, a professor of philosophy and law at New York University, observes in the thoughtful and entertaining “Captive Gods,” founders of modern sociology such as Émile Durkheim, Georg Simmel and Max Weber were “preoccupied with religion.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“For Durkheim, the content of religion was society; for Simmel, the form of religion was society,” Mr. Appiah writes.

From The Wall Street Journal

Robinson is survived by her son, UTA co-founder and Chief Executive Jeremy Zimmer, and her daughter, Johanna Simmel, as well as eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

From Los Angeles Times

He noted a famous 1944 study by Fritz Heider and Marianne Simmel, in which participants were shown an animated movie of two triangles and a circle interacting.

From New York Times

In Heike Jenss’s “Fashioning Memory,” Simmel’s idea of reiz “refers also to a physiological stimulus or sensation, implying a deeper-going sensual or emotional affect caused by the contrast of the past fashion revived in the present.”

From Washington Post