| Georg Simmel(1858-1918)was a significant thinker of the social theory in Germany. He was established in many fields such as philosophy, aesthetics and sociology and so on. This thesis focuses on sociological aesthetics and philosophy of art, discussing his aesthetics thoughts on two points:the form in sociology and the life in philosophy. The purpose of this paper is to draw the map of Simmel’s thoughts of aesthetics, and discover the interrelationship among his sociology, aesthetics and philosophy, through the central contempt——life and form.The full text consists of three parts. The first chapter suppose the question’What’s the possibility of Simmel’s to be an aesthetician’, mainly through discover the aesthetic element in his thoughts to find out how did he use aesthetic way to analyses the ordinary thing in out life. The second chapter investigates Simmel’s sociological aesthetics, as well as the transition from sociology to philosophy of life. The third chapter discloses Simmel’s philosophy of art, and discusses the three basic theme below through Rembrandt:an essay in the philosophy of art and other essays relevant to this these:fist, the relationship between fragments and unity, it contains the questions about the continuity of life and the movement of expression, the being and becoming and so on. Second, research the interrelationship between the ’individuality’and’general’; third, understanding Simmel’s value in present context from artistic works’internal automaticity to the external transcendentality. The writer believes that Simmel’s critical method of aesthetic and social content together has great theoretical value to interpret modern art. However, some limits do exist in the innermost core of his theories. |
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