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8. Concerning My Dissertation
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[54], (24) Lines: 15 ——— * 178.09 ——— Normal P * PgEnds: P [54], (24) 8 Concerning My Dissertation Its subject matter was Wechselwirkung und Gezweiung. Wechselwirkung was the key term of Georg Simmel’s sociology, which formed the basis for the further development of the Beziehungslehre in German social science. Gezweiung was the favorite term in the sociology of Othmar Spann. The difference was the ontological one of constructing social reality out of relations between autonomous individuals or of assuming a preexistent spiritual bond between human beings that would be realized in their personal relations. My concern was with the difference between Simmel’s individualistic and Spann’s universalistic construction of society. The dissertation was never published, and I am afraid I hardly remember now the details.1 1. Published in English translation as Interaction and Spiritual Community: A Methodological Investigation, in CW, 32:19–140. 54 ...