Not the Hoi Polloi: A History of ‘High Culture’
The high culture of the West originated in the classical-world traditions of intellectual and aesthetic life in Ancient Greece. Introduction High culture encompasses the cultural objects of aesthetic value, which a society collectively esteem as exemplary art,[1] and the intellectual works of philosophy, history, and literature that a society consider representative of their culture.[2] In popular usage, the term high culture identifies the culture[…]
