文档介绍：`Beauty': Some Stages in the History of an Idea Author(s): Jerome Stolnitz Source: Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1961), pp. 185-204 Published by: University of Pennsylvania Press Stable URL: ble/2707832 . Accessed: 17/02/2011 23:56 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at . e/info/about/policies/. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, mercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at . ion/showPublisher?publisherCode=upenn. . Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact ******@. University of Pennsylvania Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of the History of Ideas. 'BEAUTY': SOME STAGES IN THE HISTORY OF AN IDEA BY JEROME STOLNITZ We have to catch ourselves up in order to recognize that 'beauty' has receded or even disappeared from contemporary aesthetic theory. For, like other once influential ideas, it has simply faded away. Far more venerable thanl the concepts of 'fine art' " and 'aesthetic,' 2 'beauty' has been, traditionally, the dominant concept in aesthetic theory, art criticism, and ordinary aesthetic discourse. But when we catch ourselves up, we see