January 15, 1999

Aesthetics Should Not Be Studied Apart From Culture or Politics

To the Editor:

If, as Emory Elliott suggests in "Wearying of Cultural Studies, Some Scholars Rediscover Beauty" (December 4), aesthetics "is the forbidden subject," then the police haven't been doing a very good job. I began hearing about the return to aesthetics shortly after I entered graduate school in 1989. I would suggest that aesthetics has been "forbidden" in the post-theory academy in much the same way

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