in critique of critique

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in critique of critique

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In aesthetic critique, only the ineffable standards are the meaningful ones. Everything else is just categorizing.
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Advocate wrote: Fri Mar 05, 2021 4:33 pm In aesthetic critique, only the ineffable standards are the meaningful ones. Everything else is just categorizing.
"Ineffable standards" are the standards of philosophical idealism, very poor compared to the more systematized standards of the rationalist and materialist critique of art.
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Advocate wrote: Fri Mar 05, 2021 4:33 pm In aesthetic critique, only the ineffable standards are the meaningful ones. Everything else is just categorizing.
I find it a problematic situation, that citation is the ransom of no criticism; then again, intellectually, I empathise with the situation
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