Depersonalized products carry more cultural significance than personal ones
Evidence
This will clearly be most emphatically true of those cultural products in which a personal life is speaking. The more separated a product is from the subjective spirituality of its creator, the more it is integrated into an objective order—the more distinct is its cultural significance and the more suited it is to become a general means for the cultivation of many individual souls. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 561
Categorization
- DEFINE: Direct causal statement: distance from creator’s subjectivity increases cultural utility.
- XREF: connects to: Overwhelming objective culture forces individuals to exaggerate their peculiarities — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 760; Objective and subjective culture are distinct measurable phenomena — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 564; Cultural forms ossify and drift apart from the life that created them — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 837 (+1 more)
Related
- Overwhelming objective culture forces individuals to exaggerate their peculiarities (similarity 0.81)
- Subjective and objective culture necessarily oppose each other (similarity 0.80)
- Cultural forms ossify and drift apart from the life that created them (similarity 0.80)
- Individual mental distinctiveness emerges only from contact with objective culture. (similarity 0.80)
- Objective and subjective culture are distinct measurable phenomena (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Overwhelming objective culture forces individuals to exaggerate their peculiarities
#expands(0.60) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 760 - Objective and subjective culture are distinct measurable phenomena
#expands(0.55) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 564 - Cultural forms ossify and drift apart from the life that created them
#expands(0.50) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 837