Nothing more distant from the banal misreading of the aesthetic as an apolitical "aestheticism" can be imagined than the arguments to be found in these essays. From Wordnik.com. [Response: Reading the Aesthetic, Reading Romanticism] Reference
In Germany, whenever there is a debate about the great Catholic liturgical tradition, it only needs someone to utter the accusation of 'aestheticism', and it is all over. From Wordnik.com. [The Rebellion Against the Self-Evident] Reference
He never threw off from himself that disproportionate accumulation of aestheticism which is the burden of the amateur. From Wordnik.com. [Heretics] Reference
Eucken has turned with equal severity against the aestheticism which is preached so loudly in our days and which «infects only reflective and pleasure-loving hedonists». From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Literature 1908 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Symbolism and aestheticism have clearly intervened. From Wordnik.com. [The Beauty of the Medusa: A Study in Romantic Literary Iconology] Reference
There is the vain and languorous pity of aestheticism. From Wordnik.com. [The Threshold Grace] Reference
In effect, aestheticism marked a radical disengagement from. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The unexpected aestheticism of the remark robbed him of speech. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
What held him, possibly, was its somewhat plausible aestheticism. From Wordnik.com. [11/01/2003 - 12/01/2003] Reference
This type of aestheticism is criticized from the point of view of ethics. From Wordnik.com. [Søren Kierkegaard] Reference
Asceticism had given way to aestheticism, strict artifice to fanciful art. From Wordnik.com. [Time Streams]
He greeted the Irish Literary Theater with a polemic against folksy aestheticism. From Wordnik.com. [James Joyce] Reference
‘His frailty and his aestheticism are both bad signs, to me,’ said Kate ominously. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
Dirty Pictures Trailer - This trailer blends aestheticism and interviewing seamlessly. From Wordnik.com. [This Week In Trailers: The Secret In Their Eyes (El Secreto De Sus Ojos), American: The Bill Hicks Story, The Square, Jake, Kajínek | /Film] Reference
A new form of aestheticism has lately appeared which pretends to combine morality and culture. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
Call it aestheticism, squeamishness, namby-pamby sentimentalism, what you will it is stronger than oneself!. From Wordnik.com. [The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays] Reference
Conversion is largely a matter of literary aestheticism: the power of Koranic poetry fuses beauty and truth. From Wordnik.com. [A very digested read] Reference
His aestheticism becomes a protest against the painful anxieties of literal minds and calculating consciences. From Wordnik.com. [Adventurer] Reference
Formalism and aestheticism were not antithetical to political commitment, but technologies of utopian revelation. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Formalist, or W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur] Reference
This notion of art ruled most of the 18th and 19th centuries until it was swept away by aestheticism and modernism. From Wordnik.com. [Transmitting Emotion] Reference
Socializing the means of production and consumption would be the condition of an aestheticism unbound, not its overcoming. From Wordnik.com. [Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man] Reference
Thus PV's rejection of aestheticism, whereby the "primary" focus becomes "on the aesthetic at the expense of the content.". From Wordnik.com. [Saying Something] Reference
In fact I think he was seduced by aestheticism: the thrill of creating art about the religious quest eclipsed the quest itself. From Wordnik.com. [Why Updike was a spiritual failure] Reference
Yet far from limiting its appeal, the aestheticism serves the film because yoked to an emotional wound with universal resonance. From Wordnik.com. [Erica Abeel: The Beautiful and the Buzzed] Reference
The studies by David Bindman, Robert Essick, Morris Eaves and Joseph Viscomi remind us that aestheticism itself is never ahistorical. From Wordnik.com. [Blake & Virtuality: An Exchange] Reference
Abandon love, abandon aestheticism, abandon the baggage of wisdom, for in the new culture, your wisdom is ridiculous and insignificant. From Wordnik.com. [From Shtetl to Château] Reference
In both books, she seems to lament the replacement of Victorian moral nerve with Edwardian aestheticism and “value-free” relativism. From Wordnik.com. [Gertrude Himmelfarb.] Reference
He was always railing against "florid aestheticism" used to conceal "the verities of structure under a welter of heterogeneous ornament.". From Wordnik.com. [Consider the Trimmings] Reference
On the other hand, this could just be the typically (and subconscious) British style of giving pragmatism the ascendancy over aestheticism. From Wordnik.com. [Linguistic inclusion and the clergy] Reference
Here is much aestheticism and art nouveau, especially designs lifted directly from Alphonse Mucha and freely adapted from Aubrey Beardsley. From Wordnik.com. [Psychedelic Denver] Reference
What ap - pealed to Mencken in aestheticism was the rejection of the old didactic view of criticism: the critic as constable or “birchman.”. From Wordnik.com. [LITERARY CRITICISM] Reference
These songs have nothing of the excessive formalism and aestheticism of the Chinese, but give expression to simple emotions in unpolished language with a direct appeal. From Wordnik.com. [A History of China] Reference
The skepticism which underlay this aestheticism appeared in its subjectivization of experience, its car - rying Victorian individualism to the ne plus ultra of solipsism. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
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