aesthetic attitude

aesthetic attitude
The attitude of detached and disinterested, but engaged, contemplation often supposed to be appropriate to understanding the aesthetic value of a work of art. The centrality of an aesthetic attitude is stressed in Kant's Critique of Judgement .

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