The Truth of Beauty: Educating the Moral Imagination
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. —Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” These famous lines…
Aesthetic Knowledge
Aesthetic subjectivism, or “relativism,” is the view that beauty is solely in the eye of the beholder. The term “relativism” is sometimes used to indicate that beauty…
Roger Caillois is a Better Guide to the Sacred Foundations of the West than Giorgio Agamben
The mystery of the liturgy coincides totally with the mystery of operativity - Giorgio Agamben In my opinion, Giorgio Agamben is the most important contemporary European…
The Political Aesthetics of Inclusion and Exclusion
Democratic Aesthetics in Tocqueville In his analysis of democracy Alexis de Tocqueville makes a number of observations about the relationship between political culture and arts. He writes…