{"id":61,"date":"2019-05-03T10:58:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T08:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/?p=61"},"modified":"2019-05-03T10:58:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T08:58:50","slug":"emiliano-rubens-urciuoli-presented-a-working-paper-on-an-archetypal-blase-justin-martyr-and-the-segmentation-of-christians-urban-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/2019\/05\/03\/emiliano-rubens-urciuoli-presented-a-working-paper-on-an-archetypal-blase-justin-martyr-and-the-segmentation-of-christians-urban-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli presented a working paper on ‚An Archetypal Blas\u00e9? Justin Martyr and the Segmentation of Christians\u2019 Urban Life‘"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When Georg Simmel authored The\nMetropolis and Mental Life<\/em> in 1903, urbanization was spurred by fossils\nfuels and metropolises were about to become one of the most prominent man-made\nfeatures of the planet.\nThe relationship between metropolis and modernity was such that the former was\nseen and the crucial \u2018site of intensification\u2019 of the former. Nevertheless, this\npaper sets out to show that the general question posed by Simmel\u2019s famous Dresden\nlecture, that is, \u2018how the personality\u2019 of a city-dweller \u2018accommodates itself\nin the adjustments to [the] external forces\u2019 of a vast and dense city-space,\ncan be profitably referred back onto the life of some urban populations of past\nagrarian societies. More specifically, the paper argues that, unlike small\ntowns and more radically than other large centers, the megacity of imperial Rome\nwas liable to produce what Simmel calls the \u2018psychological basis of the\nmetropolitan type of individuality\u2019 and relates to the massive \u2018intensification\nof nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of\nouter and inner stimuli\u2019. The paper\naims to sketchily investigate the \u2018amount of consciousness\u2019 that the imperial\ncity of Rome required from a Christ-believing intellectual, Justin of Neapolis,\nwho settled in Rome by the mid-2nd century and mainly dedicated himself to\nteaching classes of Christian doctrine and mapping other Christians\u2019\nmisbelieves and misdeeds: lecturing on truth and cataloguing heresies. How did Justin psychically and behaviorallyreact to metropolitan phenomena such as\nthe serial accumulation and spatial distribution of religious knowledge,\ndissemination of religious freelancing, multiplication and scattering of\nreligiously motivated meetings, overstimulation from claims, messages, and\nexperiences-deemed-religious? Following Simmel\u2019s heuristic track, the paper examines\nthe way Justin\u2019s \u2018personality\u2019 made it to accommodate to the \u2018external forces\u2019\nof the city of Rome. More specifically, it looks at how this \u2018intellectually\nsophisticated\u2019 personality \u2018branche[d]\u2019 out in three intertwined directions,\nnamely that of a (1) Christ believer, (2) a teacher, and a (3) \u2018heresiologist,\u2019\nand coped with a city which was replete with Christ groups, supplied a multitude\nof potential students, and sprouted several heresies-to-be. In the conclusion I\nwill push my arguments to the very limits of the sociological imagination of\nJustin\u2019s metropolitan psychic life and urban experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Georg Simmel authored The Metropolis and Mental Life in 1903, urbanization was spurred by fossils fuels and metropolises were about to become one of the most prominent man-made features of the planet. The relationship between metropolis and modernity was such that the former was seen and the crucial \u2018site of intensification\u2019 of the former. … „Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli presented a working paper on ‚An Archetypal Blas\u00e9? Justin Martyr and the Segmentation of Christians\u2019 Urban Life‘“ <\/span>weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[41,40,43,42,39],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projekte.uni-erfurt.de\/maxweberkolleg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}