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For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.
Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel
Born: Mar 1, 1858
Died: Sep 28, 1918

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Strangers, Type, Distance, General, Individuals, Conceived, Particular, Than, Regard, Them, Really, Less, Reason, Element

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Emile Durkheim, Ivan Illich, Jean Baudrillard, Marshall McLuhan, Matthew Desmond, Pierre Bourdieu, Talcott Parsons, Zygmunt Bauman
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