Creating new intellectual strata from unprepared groups faces unprecedented difficulty

Evidence

Simmel’s extraordinary originality may well be connected with his position as a relatively isolated thinker. He was, indeed, a “stranger” in the academy. The stylistic manifestations of a marginal position are striking in his written work. Neither in Simmel’s text nor in annotations does one find acknowledgment of scholarly predecessors or contemporaries. He speaks for himself, along with the immortal dead. What is more, Simmel deliberately shied away from recruiting disciples to carry on his kinds of inquiry. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 10 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Elite intellectuals must be created through a slow contradictory process; A newly hegemonic subaltern group must build a new intellectual and moral order; Intellectual work must produce new knowledges rather than recirculate known conclusions (+2 more)

Related

• Intellectual originality can be a product of marginal social position (similarity 0.87)
• Elite intellectuals must be created through a slow contradictory process (similarity 0.85)
• Intellectuals’ self-image as autonomous shapes ideology and politics. (similarity 0.82)
• Ideological positions reproduce social positions in transfigured form. (similarity 0.81)
• Social movements generate theory rather than merely applying it (similarity 0.79)
• A newly hegemonic subaltern group must build a new intellectual and moral order (similarity 0.79)
• Intellectual work now faces a constant downward pull toward relaxed standards (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Intellectual work must produce new knowledges rather than recirculate known conclusions #qualifies (0.78)
• Intellectual originality can be a product of marginal social position #complicates (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 10