The article analyses one of the fundamental texts of urban theory - Georg Simmel’s essay “The Metropolis and Mental Life” (1903). Like works of other German thinkers at the turn of the 20th c. Simmel’s interpretation of urban experience...
The article analyses one of the fundamental texts of urban theory - Georg Simmel’s essay “The Metropolis and Mental Life” (1903). Like works of other German thinkers at the turn of the 20th c. Simmel’s interpretation of urban experience correlates to a large with literary city images created in the 19th c. as well as two decades later in a modernist novel. Aspects of metropolis, elucidated by Simmel, appear not only in novels’ themes, but also in their form and artistic principles.
Известия Саратовского университета. 2009. Сер. Социология. Политология, Вып. 2 – С. 66-69.
