1. Stranger -Simmel And Schutz
His essay "The Stranger" examines the city as a place for these interactions, a place that "excites and alienates;" a place that leads to "the atrophy of individual culture through the hypertrophy of objective culture... "# The stranger described in Simmel's essay is one who is both attached and detached from the group structure in which he lives. ... This idea of the simultaneous "remoteness and nearness" which appears quite often throughout the essay seems paradoxical, yet it appropriately explains the unique position of the stranger in society. ... His belief that men naively as...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate