aestheticism

The combination Nietzsche-Wilde-Mallarmé, incongruous as it is, recurs frequently in English aestheticism and it is amusing and symptomatic to find it back in the early Gide, Mr. Scott, however, was clearly not amused.

Nihilism Scott, Michael P. 1965

From a late lecture by the 20th-century theologian Paul Tillich: When I came to this country and first used the word aestheticism in a lecture, a colleague of mine at Columbia University told me not to use that word in describing Americans.

This and/or that Matthew Guerrieri 2009

From a late lecture by the 20th-century theologian Paul Tillich: When I came to this country and first used the word aestheticism in a lecture, a colleague of mine at Columbia University told me not to use that word in describing Americans.

Archive 2009-04-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009

In Germany, whenever there is a debate about the great Catholic liturgical tradition, it only needs someone to utter the accusation of 'aestheticism', and it is all over.

The Rebellion Against the Self-Evident 2009

I would also agree that it isn't the case "that reading a novel on its own terms should always be the end point of criticism," although I do maintain -- this is really what my allegiance to "aestheticism" finally amounts to -- it is a indispensable and necessary beginning point.

Principles of Literary Criticism 2010

Nothing more distant from the banal misreading of the aesthetic as an apolitical "aestheticism" can be imagined than the arguments to be found in these essays.

Response: Reading the Aesthetic, Reading Romanticism 2005

Eucken has turned with equal severity against the aestheticism which is preached so loudly in our days and which «infects only reflective and pleasure-loving hedonists».

Nobel Prize in Literature 1908 - Presentation Speech 1908

He never threw off from himself that disproportionate accumulation of aestheticism which is the burden of the amateur.

Heretics 1905

I would also agree that it isn't the case "that reading a novel on its own terms should always be the end point of criticism," although I do maintain -- this is really what my allegiance to "aestheticism" finally amounts to -- it is a indispensable and necessary beginning point.

The Reading Experience 2008

The wealthy Morris fed Burne-Jones's appetite for aestheticism: They shared an interest in Romanticism, illuminated manuscripts, medieval church interiors and Chaucer.

A Penchant for Dreaming Henrik Bering 2012