...that is a "synthesis of nearness and remoteness." Above all, the stranger possesses an "objectivity" that "does not signify mere detachment and nonparticipation,...composed of remoteness and nearness, indifference and involvement" (Individuality 145). The stranger is a resonant figure because he dissolves univocal definitions...

...distracting qualities. Objectivity, in other words, "does not signify mere detachment and non participation, but is a distinct structure composed of remoteness and nearness, indifference and involvement.""4 In this Simmel rejoins the defmition of the flanenr whose acute powers of observation,...

...objective attitude inherent in the stranger's role thus "does not signify mere detachment and remoteness, but is a distinct structure composed of remoteness and nearness, indifference and involvement" (Levine, 1971:145). But, because the stranger's position and perspective is in fact an...

...of "objectivity" than "indifference". Georg Simmel described the objectivity of the stranger thus: "Because he is not bound by roots to the particular...composed of remoteness and nearness, indifference and involvement."39 Such objectivity - Simmel observed is a kind of freedom. It implies freedom from those...

...character of the stranger also accounts for the stranger's objectivity. Because he is not bound by roots to particular constituents and partisan dispositions...composed of remoteness and nearness, indifference and involvement. t 1908f:145) Simmel's discussion of the stranger can he applied to the position of different...

...character of the stranger also accounts for the stranger's objectivity. Because he is not bound by roots to particular constituents and partisan dispositions...composed of remoteness and nearness, indifference and involvement. f1908f:145) Simmel's discussion of the stranger can be applied to the position of different...

...single one. Another expression of this constellation is to be found in the objectivity of the stranger. Because he is not bound by roots to the particular...composed of remoteness and nearness. indifference and involvement. I refer to my analysis of the dominating positions gained by aliens. in the discussion...

...stranger to German society and to the academy. A stranger, Simmel wrote in his Soziologie of 1 908, is not bound by roots to the particular constituents...composed of remoteness and nearness, indifference and involvement. . . . Objectivity can also be defined as freedom. The objective man is not bound by ties...

...bound by roots to the particular constituents and partisan dispositions of the group, he confronts all these with a distinctly 'objective' attitude, an attitude...composed of remoteness and nearness, indifference and involvement. (Marginal Men: Edward Thomas; Ivor Gurney; JR Ackerley [London: Macmillan, 1991], p.9)...

...as a "marginal man" by Piers Gray, who draws on Georg Simmel's seminal definition of the "stranger": Because he is not bound by roots to the particular...partisan dispositions of the group, he confronts all these with a distinctly 'objective' attitude, an attitude that does not signify mere detachment and...