Against Interpretation, and Other EssaysItem consists of a selection of articles and reviews written between 1962 and 1965. |
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... aesthetic and the ethical . For the problem of art versus morality is a pseudo - problem . The distinction itself is a trap ; its continued plausibility rests on not putting the ethical into question , but only the aesthetic . To argue ...
... aesthetic and the ethical . For the problem of art versus morality is a pseudo - problem . The distinction itself is a trap ; its continued plausibility rests on not putting the ethical into question , but only the aesthetic . To argue ...
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... aesthetic experience . Only when works of art are reduced to statements which propose a spe- cific content , and when morality is identified with a particular mo- rality ( and any particular morality has its dross , those elements which ...
... aesthetic experience . Only when works of art are reduced to statements which propose a spe- cific content , and when morality is identified with a particular mo- rality ( and any particular morality has its dross , those elements which ...
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... aesthetic phenomenon . That is to say , the world ( all there is ) cannot , ultimately , be justified . Justification is an operation of the mind which can be per- formed only when we consider one part of the world in relation to ...
... aesthetic phenomenon . That is to say , the world ( all there is ) cannot , ultimately , be justified . Justification is an operation of the mind which can be per- formed only when we consider one part of the world in relation to ...
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