Interiorizing culture requires devouring it as inorganic nature

Evidence

Immanent in the development of the Hegelian concept is this process of formalization, a future it cannot avoid. If spirit sacrifices its own flesh in reducing concrete there-being to a simplified determination, this has nonetheless allowed spirit to appropriate the speculative content. The individual ‘devours’ culture as if it were his ‘inorganic nature’, and then reproduces in his own being that very destruction innate to simplification. This is the only way the individual can interiorize culture. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1056

Categorization

• XREF: The individual devouring culture as ‘inorganic nature’ connects to Malabou’s plasticity and to developmental claims about how subjects metabolize their cultural inheritance. — connects to: Culture requires routing one’s perfection through external objects and spheres — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 555; Culture must be negated determinately as reconciliation with nature — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 983; Thought requires active engagement with a modifying cultural environment to be real — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1254 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Culture requires routing one’s perfection through external objects and spheres #expands (0.78) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 555
• Thought requires active engagement with a modifying cultural environment to be real #expands (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1254
• Culture must be negated determinately as reconciliation with nature #expands (0.74) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 983
• Cultural origin connections must be actively recreated rather than inherited naturally #exemplifies (0.72)