Siegfried Kracauer, "The Group as Bearer of Ideas", The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995), p 157.
The colonial period of U.S. history contains a variety of interesting lessons. One of these pertains to the concept of a "virtuoso." The virtuoso was primarily characterized by curiosity. Rather than being overly specialized, the virtuoso explored a wide range of interests. The study of nature, art, literature, and theology all would have been pursuits common to this stereotype. This blog aspires to take this early category and use it as a point of departure for exploration and reflection.
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
The Necessity of Social Strata and the Possibility of Progress
"It should be noted in passing that a reduction of group egotism and of the contrasts between group spirits, an eradication of excessive economic inequalities, and so on are things that can be achieved, whereas the complete elimination of hierarchically structured strata and of all differences in levels among groups cannot."
Siegfried Kracauer, "The Group as Bearer of Ideas", The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995), p 157.
Siegfried Kracauer, "The Group as Bearer of Ideas", The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995), p 157.
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