This article is an imagined dialogue between Weber and Simmel which makes a modest use of some of the resources of theatrical play in order to provide an overall portrait of both thinkers and to bring their thought to bear on our present. The dialogue consists of three acts focused on three central problematics in as many critical moments in Weber and Simmel’s lives: Act I takes place during the preparations for the first conference of the German Sociological Association and thus deals with the constitution of sociology as a socio-cultural science. Act II takes place amid the First World War and its theme is evidently politics. Finally, Act III, where our two characters correspond instead of maintaining a face-to-face dialogue, is situated towards the end of the war and focuses on the attitude to life and indeed to death, as Simmel’s tragic yet admirable death takes place then. A brief introduction explains how we tried to use the possibilities of the dialogical form to expound Weber’s and Simmel’s thought, to compel them to confront their own blind spots and ‘unthoughts’, as well as to explore new ways of teaching the classics and transmitting their thought.

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韦伯和齐美尔的哲学和政治立场：三幕对话

这篇文章是韦伯和齐美尔之间的想象对话，它适度利用了戏剧的一些资源，以提供两位思想家的整体画像，并将他们的思想带入我们的当下。对话由三幕组成，重点是韦伯和齐美尔生命中许多关键时刻的三个核心问题：第一幕发生在德国社会学协会第一次会议的筹备期间，因此涉及作为社会学的社会学的构成。文化科学。第二幕发生在第一次世界大战期间，其主题显然是政治。最后，第三幕，我们的两个角色对应而不是保持面对面的对话，位于战争即将结束的时候，重点是对生的态度，甚至对死亡的态度，当齐美尔悲惨而令人钦佩的死亡发生在那时。一个简短的介绍解释了我们如何试图利用对话形式的可能性来阐述韦伯和齐美尔的思想，迫使他们直面自己的盲点和“未思考”，以及探索经典教学和传播他们的新方法。想法。