aesthetic

• “It is important to make clear that as the existence of the hedonistic side in every spiritual activity has given rise to the confusion between the aesthetic activity and the useful or pleasurable, so the existence, or, better, the possibility of constructing this physical side, has generated the confusion between _aesthetic_ expression and expression”

  Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic

• “Passing on to the study of more complex concepts, where the aesthetic activity is found in conjunction with other orders of facts, and showing the mode of this union or complication, we find ourselves at once face to face with the concept of _feeling_ and with the feelings which are called _aesthetic_.”

  Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic

• “In his Three Lectures on Aesthetic, Bosanquet focuses primarily on aesthetic appreciation, analysing the ˜aesthetic attitude™ which, he says, is an activity not of the mind alone, but of the whole person ” “body-and-mind.””

  Fictionaut: My Recycled Soul

• “The word aesthetic comes from the Greek, aisthanomai, meaning "to perceive, to sense".”

  Archive 2007-02-01

• “If your aesthetic is a surreal one, this isn't a problem; you can easily come up with titles that not only aren't jarringly incongruent with the music, but actually contribute to the overall effect.”

  Archive 2006-12-01

• “The power of the aesthetic is also a precondition for”

  Introduction: 'The Power is There': Romanticism as Aesthetic Insistence

• “But however symptomatic or inevitable the spatialization of the aesthetic may be for our understanding of the relationship between art and non-art — the aesthetic is here or there or inside this or that — aesthetic spacing can only be derived from force: it is the effect of a break.”

  Introduction: 'The Power is There': Romanticism as Aesthetic Insistence

• “If the possibility of a critique of the aesthetic is already an effect of the aesthetic, then, the historical persistence of this category will be unassailable as long as critique is understood as the sole means of its limitation.”

  Aesthetic Violence and the Legitimacy of Reading Romanticism

• “In this case, the insistence of the aesthetic is the insistence of an era whose critical vocation, one can also say, whose modernity, is guaranteed by the repetition of the category it would otherwise separate itself from by means of critique.”

  Aesthetic Violence and the Legitimacy of Reading Romanticism

• “Defined in this way, freedom becomes what must be recalled from the aesthetic, but when the aesthetic is also the means of recall, the only choice is to succumb to its limit, for it is only in recognizing such a necessity that freedom can be recalled.”

  Indifferent Freedom

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