Social fragmentation liberates while cultural fragmentation frustrates self-development

Evidence

For Simmel, the fragmentation of social life is liberating and gratifying, whereas the fragmentation of man’s experience of culture is frustrating. This is because social fragmentation promotes the conditions for developing individuality, whereas cultural fragmentation both hinders and assists man’s self-development. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 104

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Self-fulfilment can positively appropriate globalised influences rather than retreat — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 298; Neoliberal self-entrepreneurship destabilizes the fixed boundaries of personhood — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 418

Related

• Self-fulfilment can positively appropriate globalised influences rather than retreat (similarity 0.80)
• Simmel reads human experience as creative, fragmented, conflictual, and individualistic (similarity 0.80)
• Simmel saw cultural evolution producing diverse incommensurable worlds, not unified humanity (similarity 0.79)