The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.
Georg SimmelAbout author
- Author's profession: Sociologist
- Nationality: deutsch
- Born: March 1, 1858
- Died: September 28, 1918
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