The theoretical hesitation: Benjamin's sociological predecessor

Critical Inquiry

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 267-285

  Jameson, Fredric ^a  

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EID: 2542571059     PISSN: 00931896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/448920     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Quoted in Donald N. Levine, introduction to Georg Simmel, On Individuality and Social Forms: Selected Writings, ed. Levine (Chicago, 1971), p. xiii
2. Simmel, "The Metropolis and Mental Life," trans. Edward A. Shils, On Individuality and Social Forms, p. 324
3. hereafter abbreviated "MM"; Simmel, "Die Großstädte und das Geistesleben," Jahrbuch der Gehe-Stiftung zu Dresden 9 (Winter 1902,-3): 187, hereafter abbreviated "GG."
4. Georg Lukács, History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics, trans. Rodney Livingstone (Cambridge, Mass., 1971), p. 186. But juxtapose Simmel's equally significant position: "Money as such is the most terrible destroyer of form"
5. (Simmel, The Philosophy of Money, trans. Tom Bottomore and David Frisby [London, 1978], p. 272, hereafter abbreviated PM
6. Simmel, Philosophie des Geldes [1900; Berlin, 1958], p. 285, hereafter abbreviated PG). 5
7. "Un kaleidoscope doué de conscience" (Charles Baudelaire, "Le Peintre de 1a vie moderne," Oeuvres complètes, ed. Claude Pichois and Jean Ziegler, 2 vols. [Paris, 1976], 2:692
8. quoted in Walter Benjamin, "On Some Motifs in Baudelaire," Illuminations, trans. Harry Zohn, ed. Hannah Arendt [New York, 1968], p. 175)
9. See, for example, Charles Sanders Peirce, Principles of Philosophy, in Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, ed. Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss, 8 Vols, in 5 (Cambridge, Mass., 1960), 1:182-95