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Aesthetics

attending to an object for its own sake without practical concern, a notion Stolnitz traced to eighteenth-century British aesthetics.

In aesthetics, aesthetic disinterestedness refers to attending to an object for its own sake without practical concern, a notion Stolnitz traced to eighteenth-century British aesthetics. This meaning comes from Stolnitz (1961) in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.[1]

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  1. Stolnitz, J. (1961). On the Origins of "Aesthetic Disinterestedness". The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 20(2), 131. https://doi.org/10.2307/427462

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