To talk, as I am here, about the aesthetic pleasures of scholarly writing is surely a fool’s game. After all, we know that much academic writing is at best intelligible and at worst unreadable. To ...

Well, young student, read on: Aesthetics: We usually think of aesthetics as being that which is good. However, this branch of philosophy is more involved with the nature of critical thinking.

“I think that building these ‘aesthetic’ communities virtually ... Alice Sidgwick, a lifelong reader who “loves studying, writing, vintage clothes and old buildings,” said she didn ...

For Americans of my generation doing philosophical aesthetics, Arthur Danto (1924-2013) was the key figure. He became famous because he offered a system defining art and linking it to other ...

Revisiting his critical writing, we learn a valuable lesson about ... unburdened by the demands of public opinion or by a milieu’s prevailing aesthetic conventions. If yielding to authority ...