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(2013) Form and dialectic in Georg Simmel's sociology, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
In contrast, but still with the aim of exhibiting Simmel's general method, though by a different means, this chapter collects together his use of a single general polarity absolute-relative spread across several of his texts and in relation to a number of different topics. The topics include truth and knowledge, money and gender. The terms absolute and relative occur together or singly, but if singly, still with the second half of the pair implied. Also, when both are present, often one part of the pair will be dominant. We will also notice how a second general polarity, the subject and object duality, is often present in conjunction with the absolute-relative one.
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Schermer, H. , Jary, D. (2013). Absolute and relative: the operation of a single polarity, in Form and dialectic in Georg Simmel's sociology, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 165-195.
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