Features September 2013
Against aesthetics
On criticism & rejecting aesthetic statements.
“Good sir, how many angels may jig upon the point
of a needle?”
“The answer, friend, would be metaphysical, and
you must inquire of Aquinas.”
“But what of the dance itself?”
“That would lie within the physics, and you must
ask Aristotle.”
“And whether the jig be good or bad?”
“That must be aesthetical, and of aesthetics ’twere
best not to speak.”
—Papers of Methodius, Book III
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