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The Fear of Aesthetics in Art and Literary Theory
- New Literary History
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 48, Number 2, Spring 2017
- pp. 223-244
- 10.1353/nlh.2017.0011
- Article
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Abstract
Is aesthetics, as has recently been claimed, now able to meet the accusations often levelled against it? This essay examines counters to three of the most common: that aesthetics is based around overly narrow conceptions of "art" and "the aesthetic"; that aesthetics is politically disengaged; and that aesthetics fails to engage with actual art objects and their histories.
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