ABSTRACT
For at least a decade now, and probably longer, philosophical aesthetics has
been afflicted by the malaise of academicism-in stark contrast to the artistic
objects to which it relates and the art-related theories with which it competes.
For the reader of recent publications and the visitor of increasingly small
conferences, it must appear that philosophical aesthetics finds itself every-
where in the same corner that Richard Rorty describes with regard to Anglo-
Saxon philosophy departments:
