FratFiles

• Save Paper

The fact of economic exchange confers upon the value of
things something super-individual. It detaches them from
dissolution in the mere subjectivity of the agents, and causes
them to determine each other reciprocally, since each exerts its
economic function in the other. The practically effective value
is conferred upon the object, not merely by its own desirability,
but by the desirability of another object. Not merely the
relationship to the receptive subjects characterizes this value,
but also the fact that it arrives at this relationship only at
the price of a sacrifice; while from the opposite point of view
this sacrifice appears as a good to be enjoyed, and the object in
question, on the contrary, as a sacrifice. Hence the objects
acquire a reciprocity of counterweight, which makes value appear
in a quite special manner as an objective quality indwelling in
themselves. While the object itself is the thing in controversy
-- which means that the sacrifice which......

View the rest of this paper...

Approximate Word Count: 9099
Approximate Pages: 37 (250 words per double-spaced page)

Similar Essays

1. Georg Simmel
   

   Georg Simmel Notes on Georg Simmel These notes on Georg Simmel were prepared for Sociology 250, Introduction to Social Theory, in Fall, 1995. The notes provide an overview and

2. George Simmel
   

   George Simmel 1. Introduction. While Simmel is generally not regarded as being as influential in sociology as were Marx, Weber, Durkheim, or even Parsons, several of the early

3. Marx, Weber, Durkheim, And Simmel: The Individual &Amp; Society
   

   Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Simmel: The Individual & Society Each of the four classical theorists Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Simmel had different theories of the relationship

4. Simmel
   

   Simmel The fact of economic exchange confers upon the value of things something super-individual. It detaches them from dissolution in the mere subjectivity of the agents, and

5. Blase Faire
   

   Blase Faire a) Georg Simmel describes the "blasé attitude" as being the constant stimulation and loss of stability that can result in a state in which one is no longer capable of