aestheticism

• “The combination Nietzsche-Wilde-Mallarmé, incongruous as it is, recurs frequently in English aestheticism and it is amusing and symptomatic to find it back in the early Gide, Mr. Scott, however, was clearly not amused.”

  Nihilism

• “From a late lecture by the 20th-century theologian Paul Tillich: When I came to this country and first used the word aestheticism in a lecture, a colleague of mine at Columbia University told me not to use that word in describing Americans.”

  This and/or that

• “In Germany, whenever there is a debate about the great Catholic liturgical tradition, it only needs someone to utter the accusation of 'aestheticism', and it is all over.”

  The Rebellion Against the Self-Evident

• “Nothing more distant from the banal misreading of the aesthetic as an apolitical "aestheticism" can be imagined than the arguments to be found in these essays.”

  Response: Reading the Aesthetic, Reading Romanticism

• “Eucken has turned with equal severity against the aestheticism which is preached so loudly in our days and which «infects only reflective and pleasure-loving hedonists».”

  Nobel Prize in Literature 1908 - Presentation Speech

• “He never threw off from himself that disproportionate accumulation of aestheticism which is the burden of the amateur.”

  Heretics

• “I would also agree that it isn't the case "that reading a novel on its own terms should always be the end point of criticism," although I do maintain -- this is really what my allegiance to "aestheticism" finally amounts to -- it is a indispensable and necessary beginning point.”

  The Reading Experience

• “The wealthy Morris fed Burne-Jones's appetite for aestheticism: They shared an interest in Romanticism, illuminated manuscripts, medieval church interiors and Chaucer.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Penchant for Dreaming

• “But even more explicit in advocating principles of slow media is Monocle, a luxuriously bound and produced monthly by Tyler Brûlé, a journalist turned creative guru and, crossing Jane Jacobs with John Ruskin, an apostle of a 21st-century, globally aware aestheticism in everything from a cup of espresso to urban planning and airline uniforms.”

  Forbes: Time For A Slow-Word Movement

• “Such attention is missing in Tapa, and it's possible he is simply not interested in a familiar form of aestheticism.”

  The Huffington Post: Amitava Kumar: First You Must Say Hello

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