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Compromise, the principal object of Simmel's political sociology, constitutes the framework of his political triptych,, which articulates his two key concepts of Wechselwirkung and exchange. Simmel uses it to develop an anthropological concept of politics that allows him to touch on the meanings of social justice in political modernity. Faced with a sense of justice that is limited in its general value, and different from a social norm of justice that is oblivious to the particularity of the circumstances to which it is applied, compromise enables a pluralist social justice capable of renewing the commitment to politics in modern society. Simmel reflects on this commitment with the help of the concept of compromise as a resistance to society within society.