The atrophy of individual culture through the hypertrophy of objective culture is one reason for the bitter hatred which the preachers of the most extreme individualism, above all Nietzsche, harbour against the metropolis.
Sociologist, philosopher
Describing the dehumanizing effects of modern urban life where objective culture (institutions, technology) overwhelms individual subjective experience.
1903
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