Theoretical analysis demonstrates how New Phenomenology integrates embodied experience into Georg Simmel's sociology, highlighting new frameworks for contemporary existential challenges.
Key Points
To reformulate Georg Simmel’s concepts of society and sociation by incorporating Hermann Schmitz's New Phenomenology to better account for felt subjective experiences.
Conducted a conceptual analysis evaluating Simmel's Kantian sociological epistemology alongside Hermann Schmitz's New Phenomenology.
Examined theoretical mechanisms of 'strict subjectivity' and 'embodied communication' to address the exclusion of first-person perspectives in classical sociological models.
Demonstrates that Simmel's framework sidelined involuntary bodily sensations and first-person perspectives due to disciplinary constraints, weakening the link between acting agents and social forms.
Establishes that integrating New Phenomenology provides an empirically grounded theoretical bridge between individual existential experience and broader social interactions.