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Culture: A Guess at the Riddle

use. The difference between the social production of "a culture" (objective) and the humanist efforts of the individual toward "cultivation" (subjective) represents a real difference of orientation and emphasis, and any philosophy of culture must first be clear about the matter of their relative centrality. I take the first to be primary, the second as derivative. It is social activity which is culture-producing, which sets the terms in which individual cultivation is possible. Valery's metaphor of culture as "capital" which is both "given" to the individual and a product of "accumulation" is, therefore, valid.' Both of his implications of inheritance and materiality are relatively accurate, although the latter, by suggesting a rather passive and inert givenness falsifies the genetic significance of cultural productivity. When, therefore, Valery speaks of culture as "things" (choses), he has got the cart before the horse. Cultura culturans precedes cultura culturata as process precedes product. Culture