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May 28, 2006
In Aesthetic TheoryAdorno writes:
To put a complete ban on the concept of the beauty would be as damaging for asethetics as would the removal of psyche from psychology or that of society from sociology. The definition of aesthetics as being the theory of the beautiful, however, is sterile because the formal character of the concept of beauty tends to miss the bountiful content of the aesthetical. If aesthtics were nothing but he an exhaustive and systematic list of all that can be called beautiful, we would gain no understanding of the dynamic life of inherent in the concept of beauty.
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