Humanity is implicitly defined through access to high culture

Evidence

I remember seeing Harold Bloom’s learned volume Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human in a New York bookstore in 1999 and wondering about those who have not or cannot read Shakespeare—are they not human? If you prick them, will they not bleed? — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 54

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The mummy’s value lies in guaranteeing that cultural accumulation has meaning — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 37; Being beneath the man maps onto cultural top-bottom hierarchies of superiority.; Societal success hinges on which prestige-valued domains a culture honors. — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture…, 462

Related

• Being beneath the man map**s** onto cultural top-bottom hierarchies of superiority. (similarity 0.83)
• Culture as shared meaning-making became democratized rather than elite civilization. (similarity 0.79)
• The mummy’s value lies in guaranteeing that cultural accumulation has meaning (similarity 0.78)