出版社：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要：At the end of the 19 th Century, the capitalist economy and new forms of consumption associated with it set out to seduce the city dweller with numerous stimuli that transformed their experience of the city. This involved the appearance of new pathologies like neurasthenia, related to a supposed excess cerebral demand. Sociologist Georg Simmel became interested in the effects of the capitalist metropolis on the individual linked to the “intensification of nervous life”. In this paper I address Simmel’s view of the city dweller’s reaction to the novelties of modern city life. Special attention is paid to the question of overstimulation, approaching not only how the influence of urban life on the individual was understood, but also the new role given to sensitivity as an intermediary between the individual and the city.
关键词：Georg Simmel;sensibilidad urbana moderna;sobrestimulación;vida mental en la modernidad;historia cultural de los sentidos
其他关键词：Georg Simmel;modern urban sensibility;overstimulation;mental life in modernity;cultural sensory history
