La Modernidad, cuestión de estilos. Simmel y la necesaria insuficiencia de la concepción estética de la vida

Abstract

According to G. Simmel, the diversity of styles and mankind’s
disloyalty towards them are representative of Modernity and
the collapse of classic capital letters that have guided our
existence. Lifestyle is also pervaded by this modern kingless
era, a tragic era for culture and individuals. The aesthetic
conception of life and art’s attempt to outwit the impersonal
theology could be the alternative, since the aesthetic experience
releases us from this shackle of objectivized life, of the
fulfillment of its necessities; it rids us of life’s urgency, but
only ephemerally: it reveals itself as necessary as insufficient