Simmel Bridge & Door

A dialectic analysis is one where certain laws of thought are used to demonstrate the nature of things. To a dialectical analyzer the nature of everything involves internal opposition from contradiction. Development is viewed as moving in a quantitative to a qualitative progression, and change negates what is changed but the product is also negated so that the second negation leads to development not the original starting place. In Simmel's Bridge and Door, we see the use of dialectical analysis, a mechanism of change and progress in which every possible situation exists only in relation to its own opposite. This relation encompasses antagonism and mutual dependency but the antagonism eventually undermines the relationship and overthrows it. However, sometimes dialectical is used only to emphasis a relationship of reciprocity between two entities or processes. In his analysis of a door, Simmel (172) demonstrates that a door represents "how separating and connecting are only two sides of precisely the same act."

The door exists as a means of entering or ex

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