Lost in the City: The Uprooting of the Subject in the Modern Urban Space

Abstract

Pointing the 19th century as the period of history in which man has been most exposed, in which the beliefs and traditions of that same man have been broken to give way to a new type of life that was being organized - capitalist society -, can seem commonplace, but it was undoubtedly in that century that urbanism and the street became irremediably part of our lives. In fact, when the forms of sociability of the Old Regime were broken, a whole new process of reorganization of society entered the scene: the rupture of social boundaries, statutory privileges and the emergence of citizenship became, then, crucial elements for the consolidation of this historically determined society.