ABSTRACT
The interpretation to which the resort to aesthetic experience leads is one based upon direct realising; it is therefore a theory of "immediacy," rather than one of the "mediate" type. The interpretation can not be simply mystical or emotional, of the type which results from the acceptance of reality as that with which our sense-experience brings us into direct contact. The interpretation based upon aesthetic immediacy has no such difficulty; for while the aesthetic ideal is one of fulfilment and transcendence, it is not for this reason that it is immediate. The reality of aesthetic intuition is not the outcome of a partial mode of apprehension of the real, either theoretical or practical; it is a state of essential and synthetic realization. In the act of realisation, recognised in the theory based on aesthetic immediacy, the personal is not in opposition to the impersonal, the self to the "other.".
