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7 timestamped hits 2 source readings 1 extracted note Newest source: 2025-06-04, day precision Aliases: simmels

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Simmel

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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...in a zombie civilization. All right, okay. So this is Georg Simmel, who is a friend of Max Weber's, the contemporaries, the colleagues, the..."

Most recent Jiang source touching this topic: Kill The Cult Of The Self (2025-06-04, day precision).

Most connected source readings: Kill The Cult Of The Self; The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety.

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The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety

2025-03-27, day precision · Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism

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"So, at the beginning of the class, I talked about money, right? How money takes all our different perspectives and converges into one thing,..."

Kill The Cult Of The Self

2025-06-04, day precision · Civilization #57: How Modernism Ruined Everything

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"...of this time, Max Weber, Emil Durkheim, and this man, Georg Simmel. And Georg Simmel wrote a wonderful essay called The Metropolis and Mental..."

The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety

2025-03-27, day precision · Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism

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"...refer to three major thinkers. Max Weber, Imel Durkheim, and Georg Simmel. They're all sociologists. They're considered three major founders of the social sciences,..."

The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety

2025-03-27, day precision · Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism

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"...by God to bless humanity, okay? And what Max Weber, Georg Simmel, and Imel Durkheim are trying to do is figure out what's really..."

The Iron Cage Of Protestant Anxiety

2025-03-27, day precision · Civilization #42: The Protestant Reformation and the Birth of Capitalism

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"...They're Max Weber, who is considered the founder of sociology, Georg Simmel, and Emile Durkheim. These are the three major sociologists that really created..."

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