...personality accommodates itself in the adjustments to external forces. This will be my task today. The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of...and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli. Man is a differentiating creature. His mind is stimulated by the difference between a momentary impression...

...modern times that Georg Simmel has called the development of urban perception. He characterizes it as an 'intensification of nervous stimulation which results...swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli'.16 (Italics in original.) 'Lasting impressions', Simmel says, 'impressions which take a regular...

...Simmel (1950) speculated: The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individual consists of the intensification of nervous stimulation which results...and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli. . . . Thus the metropolitan type of man . . . develops an organ protecting him against the threatening...

...thought the role that democracy does for Tocqueville, capitalism for Marx, and bureaucracy for Weber. "The psychological basis of the metropolitan type...uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli." Everywhere in metropolis there is "deep contrast with small-town and rural life with reference to the...

...contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. Charles Baudelaire The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of...and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli. Georg Simmel I If ever there was a German poet said to embody the essence of high modernism, it surely...

...Simmel, 'The Metropolis and Mental Life': The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individual consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation...and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli [. . .] the sharp discontinuity in the grasp of a single glance, and the unexpectedness of onrushing...

...90 1 : 27-9). posits the idea of a 'metropolitan type'. Document 2,12 The Metropolis and Mental Life The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of...and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli. Man is a differentiating creature. His mind is stimulated by the difference between a momentary impression...

...German sociologist Georg Simmel in his 1903 publication "The Metropolis and Mental Life" where he says, "The psychological basis of the metropolitan type...and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli" (Simmel 1950: 409-10). In Simmel's view, the modern individual can find nothing that "holds the heart"...

...personality accommodates itself in the adjustments to external forces. This will be my task today. The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of...and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli. Man is a differentiating creature. His mind is stimulated by the difference between a momentary impression...

...overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life. . . . The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of...and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli. Man is a differentiating creature. His mind is stimulated by the difference between a momentary impression...