ABSTRACT
Afforded a cultural context the whole world becomes a text or rather becomes alive with potential meaning. The piece below is taken from Simmel on Culture and concerns adornment, the fancy as opposed to the ordinary dress, such as jewels ‘which gather the personality’s value and significance of radiation as if in a focal point’. Georg Simmel is interested in exploring the ways in which ‘everything that adorns man’ can potentially accentuate the personality.
