Simmel

[zim-uhl]

noun

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

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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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.”

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Of course, it’s one of those German words that captures a vague but vast concept, as detailed by the German philosopher Georg Simmel, who wrote one of the earliest analyses of fashion.

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Ingrid Simmel, who was on a day trip to buy a wood-carved sculptured of Jesus Christ as a newborn in his crib, said she was worried but not surprised about the retired pope’s worsening health.

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