iMore Than Life Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin on Arti is the first book to trace the philosophical relation between Georg Simmel and his one-time student Walter Benjamin, two of the most influential German thinkers of the twentieth century.br br Reading Simmel's work, particularly his essays on Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and Rodin, alongside Benjamin's concept of iUnscheinbarkeit iinconspicuousness and his writings on Charlie Chaplin, iMore Than Lifei demonstrates that both Simmel and Benjamin conceive of art as the creation of something entirely new rather than as a mimetic reproduction of a given. The two thinkers diverge in that Simmel emphasizes the presence of a continuous movement of life, whereas Benjamin highlights the priority of discontinuous, interruptive moments.br br With the aim of further elucidating Simmel and Benjamin's ideas on art, St phane Symons presents a number of in-depth analyses of specific artworks that were not discussed by these authors. Through an insig