It is hard to imagine a subject matter being more capricious and elusive than aesthetics. It is easy enough to characterize it as the philosophy of art — or, to capture a greater portion of the aesthetic tradition, the philosophy of art and beauty — but once said, we right away find ourselves face-to-face with the slippery question "What is art?" (or the equally slippery question "What is beauty?").
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