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Georg Simmel's Metropolis: Anticipating the Postmodern

In his book Architecture and Nihilism: On the Philosophy of Modern Architecture (1993), Massimo Cacciari states that "the problem of the Metropolis, as a problem of the relation between modern existence and its forms, is the point from which all of Georg Simmel's philosophy develops."¹ That is to say, Simmel used the phenomenon of the Metropolis as an arena to illustrate the distinctions and relations between his concepts of "form" and "content" and the manner in which those concepts relate to human social life. Before a textual analysis of Simmel's essay is attempted, we should familiarize ourselves with what he...