ABSTRACT
This chapter reconstructs the theme of the emotions in Georg Simmel’s work, focusing on the tension between metropolitan modernity and the variegated constellation of emotions that flows directly from it. In particular, it will focus on the relationships that the modifications of time and sensory organization, typical of the metropolis, generate on the perception of interiority, on the reconstruction of individual and collective identity, on the productive dynamic between attention and distraction, on the cognitive functions of the intellect in relation to stimuli and images, on the nature acquired by feelings, on the reconfiguration of the practices of friendship and love and, finally, on the value that emotions have in the construction of social ties.
