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| Author(s): |
Lenin Bicudo Barbara
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2012-11-26 |
| Examining board members: |
Leopoldo Garcia Pinto Waizbort;
Maria Helena Oliva Augusto;
Frederic Vandenberghe
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| Advisor: | Leopoldo Garcia Pinto Waizbort |
| Abstract | |
In this study I deal with the role of analogical reasoning in the thought of Georg Simmel (1858-1918), one of the founders of German sociology. My aim here is to grasp the analogy-making as a key feature of Simmels social theory and epistemology. The first step in this direction can be summed up as a recollection of those fragments of the history of the analogy concept which most likely influenced Simmels thought. Secondly, I endeavored to collect all the instances of analogy that I could find (and identify as such) from those of his books which are deemed to be the most influential ones to sociology (viz., the Philosophie des Geldes and the Soziologie) elaborating, as a result, a broad index of such analogies. And finally I sought to analyze in minute detail some of the collected analogies, focusing on those which, on my view, shed light on or bear some relation to other key features of Simmels sociological and philosophical thought. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 09/10993-1 - Simmel and the Analogy |
| Grantee: | Lenin Bicudo Bárbara |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |