Abstract
Among Georg Simmel’s many characterizations of modernity is his claim that the current moment might be pictured as a kind of adventure. That is, the modern era seems be a leap out of the everyday customs and habitual patterns of previous periods of history and into a risky world that seems enticing, exciting, unprecedented, and unknown. This essay considers his counter-intuitive illustration of this thesis in his later philosophical and aesthetic writings, especially his last work The View of Life (1918) and the monograph Rembrandt (1916). Rather than reduce modern experience to an effect of a person’s biographical milieu or cultural context as in history or sociology, Simmel develops a metaphysical and aesthetic meditation on the multiple meanings of dying and everyday life understood as inward adventures for the individual.
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