Objective and subjective culture grow by fundamentally different logics

Evidence

Objective culture grows according to its own immanent logic; subjective culture grows according to the logic of the unfolding personality. Mastery of, say, an ethical argument, a botanical monograph, and the Schönberg quartets would be indicated by and subordinated to the form of one’s emerging individuality in the latter case; in the former, to the developmental needs of the disciplines of ethics, botany, and music. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 32

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sets up the divergence between the unlimited growth of objective culture and the self-limited growth of subjective culture—the structural basis for the blasé attitude.
• XREF: This divergence underpins the metropolitan sensory overload that forces the blasé defense in The Metropolis and Mental Life. — connects to: Objective culture grows far faster than subjective individual culture — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 760; Objective and subjective culture are distinct measurable phenomena — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 564; Modern individuals derive their ideals from specialized occupational roles, not unified cultural wholes — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 847 (+3 more)

Related

• Objective and subjective culture are distinct measurable phenomena (similarity 0.90)
• Subjective and objective culture necessarily oppose each other (similarity 0.88)
• Objective culture grows far faster than subjective individual culture (similarity 0.87)
• Individual receptive capacity is finite while objective culture grows infinitely (similarity 0.85)
• Overwhelming objective culture forces individuals to exaggerate their peculiarities (similarity 0.83)
• Individual mental distinctiveness emerges only from contact with objective culture. (similarity 0.82)
• The metropolis reduces individuals to negligible cogs in an objective culture (similarity 0.81)
• Building autonomous objective culture resembles economic takeoff into self-sustaining growth (similarity 0.80)
• Social and cultural structures overdetermine our natural human constitution. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Subjective and objective culture necessarily oppose each other #expands (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 84