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English Audio Request

Siberia
195 Words / 1 Recordings / 1 Comments

Indeed, the very assertion of this kind of break is itself typically the sign of some sort of ideological or other non-aesthetic pressure that is being brought to bear.
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Normative stipulations about aesthetic pleasure are not innocent: they also make normative stipulations about the nature of the human mind.
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For the same reasons, normative stipulations are a far cry from supporting claims about aesthetic autonomy, which are probably incoherent in any event, though aesthetic autonomy—in effect, pure self-reference—is what Kristeller would have the modern closed circuit of the arts achieve.
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Again, while no one would doubt that the concept of the fine arts exists in the mind of some, the existence of a ‘system’ of the arts and its relationship to aesthetic autonomy—about which ‘all writers and all thinkers seem to agree’—remains highly doubtful (despite Kristeller’s assurances to the contrary).
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The presence of a system is no guarantee that claims on behalf of the autonomy of art will be made, just as claims for aesthetic autonomy do not have to be premised on art at all, let alone its classification.
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Siberia
Dec. 27, 2016

Thank you, rachaelbrown.

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