Episode Synopsis "Simmel's Metropolis and The Mental Life (1903)"

In this episode, I attend to Simmel's  famous text The Metropolis and The Mental Life which was published in 1903. It seems as if this one has aged pretty well and may still be a valid description of the urban lifestyle.

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