Afterword

Summary

The book’s Afterword turns from style to aesthetic judgment, considering how aesthetic judgments do not simply serve to hierarchize styles or render verdicts of approvement or opprobrium. Rather, aesthetic judgments are what allow us to see styles as styles; they are subjective projections on objective forms of aesthetic coherence. It is such interplay between the subjective and the objective that makes both style and judgment into important forms of humanistic knowledge.