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Abstract
The text below was originally published under the name “Eros and Modernity: Simmel on Love” in: The Sociology of Emotions: Original Essays and Research Paper. Franks, D.D. and E. Doyle McCarthy (ed.). Greenwich, CT: JAI press, 1989, pp. 229-247. In the words of its author, the text was written at a time when he was intensely engaged with Simmel, working on his philosophy of history and his hermeneutics. Today, Guy Oakes revisits this text and allows Simmel Studies Journal to republish it for this special issue on love. The text explores in its first part the defining characteristics of erotic love according to Simmel: individuality, reciprocity, immediacy and radicalism. In the second part he concentrates on modernity and how it has had an impact on love relationships.
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Biographical note
Guy Oakes, Baccalaureate, social anthropology (University of Chicago 1963); PhD, philosophy (Cornell University 1968). Professor emeritus of philosophy, Monmouth University (USA). Main areas of research: 1968-1990, philosophical issues in the work of Weber and Simmel; 1990-2000: philosophical analysis of social institutions; 2000-present: history and philosophy of economics. Publications include: George Simmel: On Women, Sexuality & Love (translator and editor, 1984); Weber and Rickert:Concept Formation in the Cultural Sciences (1988); The Imaginary War: Civil Defense and American Cold War Culture (1994); The Provocative Joan Robinson:the making of a Cambridge economist (2009, with Nahid Aslanbeigui); AnthemCompanion to C. Wright Mills (editor, 2016).
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