Among Georg Simmel’s many characterizations of modernity is his claim that the current moment might be pictured as a kind of adventure. That is, the modern era seems be a leap out of the everyday customs and habitual patterns of previous periods of history and into a risky world that seems enticing, exciting, unprecedented, and unknown. This essay considers his counter-intuitive illustration of this thesis in his later philosophical and aesthetic writings, especially his last work The View of Life (1918) and the monograph Rembrandt (1916). Rather than reduce modern experience to an effect of a person’s biographical milieu or cultural context as in history or sociology, Simmel develops a metaphysical and aesthetic meditation on the multiple meanings of dying and everyday life understood as inward adventures for the individual.

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齐美尔的冒险意识：哲学、艺术和日常生活中的死亡和老年

在乔治·齐美尔 (Georg Simmel) 对现代性的众多描述中，他声称当前时刻可能被描绘为一种冒险。也就是说，现代时代似乎是从历史上历史时期的日常习俗和习惯模式中一跃而入，进入一个看似诱人、令人兴奋、前所未有且未知的危险世界。本文考虑了他在后来的哲学和美学著作中对这一论点的反直觉说明，尤其是他的最后一部作品《生活观》（1918 年）和专着伦勃朗（1916 年）。齐美尔并没有像在历史或社会学中那样将现代经验简化为一个人的传记环境或文化背景的影响，相反，齐美尔对死亡和日常生活的多重意义进行了形而上学和美学的思考，被理解为个人的内在冒险。