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Previous articleNext article No AccessArticleKant, Proust, and the Appeal of BeautyRichard MoranRichard Moran Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Critical Inquiry Volume 38, Number 2Winter 2012 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/662744 Views: 327Total views on this site Citations: 13Citations are reported from Crossref © 2012 by The University of Chicago. 0093-1896/12/3802-0010$10.00. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Lucas Scripter Meaning and beauty, Ratio 38 (Oct 2022).https://doi.org/10.1111/rati.12356Keren Gorodeisky, Eric Marcus Aesthetic knowledge, Philosophical Studies 179, no.88 (Jan 2022): 2507–2535.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-021-01775-1Nick Riggle Toward a Communitarian Theory of Aesthetic Value, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 80, no.11 (Oct 2021): 16–30.https://doi.org/10.1093/jaac/kpab060James Shelley Aesthetic Acquaintance, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 38 (Jan 2022).https://doi.org/10.1111/papq.12402Alex King Reasons, normativity, and value in aesthetics, Philosophy Compass 17, no.11 (Dec 2021).https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12807John Dyck There Are No Purely Aesthetic Obligations, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 102, no.44 (Feb 2021): 592–612.https://doi.org/10.1111/papq.12346Samantha Matherne Aesthetic Autonomy and Norms of Exposure, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 102, no.44 (Jul 2021): 686–711.https://doi.org/10.1111/papq.12375Andrea Sisti, Negaar Aryan, Payam Sadeghi What is Beauty?, Aesthetic Plastic Surgery 45, no.55 (May 2021): 2163–2176.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00266-021-02288-2Antonia Peacocke Let’s be Liberal: An Alternative to Aesthetic Hedonism, The British Journal of Aesthetics 61, no.22 (Dec 2020): 163–183.https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayaa033Daniel Whiting Aesthetic Reasons and the Demands They (Do Not) Make, The Philosophical Quarterly 71, no.22 (Jun 2020): 407–427.https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqaa045Robbie Kubala Aesthetic obligations, Philosophy Compass 15, no.1212 (Oct 2020).https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12712Julianne Chung The Oneness Hypothesis and Aesthetic Obligation, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 99, no.22 (Sep 2019): 501–507.https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12630Robbie Kubala Love and Transience in Proust, Philosophy 91, no.44 (Jun 2016): 541–557.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031819116000267
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1 A familiar feature of the history of modern aesthetics is the cycle of suspicion and defensiveness connected with the idea of beauty, as though its very appearance suggested something exaggerated, something requiring deflation, which provokes a certain polemical stance on the part of both its defenders and detractors
I had the pleasure of presenting some of this material at a Warren Quinn Conference at the University of California, Los Angeles, where I benefitted from comments by Franklin Bruno; at a Sawyer Seminar at the University of Chicago, hosted by David Wellbery and James Conant; in a series of seminars at Johns Hopkins University hosted by Michael Fried; at a workshop on philosophy and literature and film organized by Susan Wolf at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and at the New York University Conference on Modern Philosophy and Aesthetic Judgment, organized by Beatrice Longuenesse, John Richardson, and Don Garett, where I had helpful comments from Rebecca Kukla
The paper benefitted from all these occasions, from the hosts in question, as well as from audiences at the University of Illinois, University of Chicago, Stanford University, and the University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign
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1 A familiar feature of the history of modern aesthetics is the cycle of suspicion and defensiveness connected with the idea of beauty, as though its very appearance suggested something exaggerated, something requiring deflation, which provokes a certain polemical stance on the part of both its defenders and detractors. For instance, have reasons to be suspicious of pleasure itself, its role in culture, or the exaggerated claims for it, or one may have metaphysical scruples deriving from the idea that beauty can be no property of things in themselves but can only be a projection of our own sensibilities upon the world.
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