... is unavoidable: people differ, and so do aesthetic and moral preferences. So if subjectivity is inescapable, we should accept chaotic diversity in a spirit of courteous toleration. Copyright © 2017 by University of Washington 2017 axiology literary value methods of reading revaluation aesthetic...

... is separately assessed. The other side of Montaigne’s piecemeal episte- mology is his “axiological (or ethical) globalism” (39),which designates the frequent transfer from ethnography to satire, as in his espousal of a golden- age hypothesis. The satirist generalizes the meanings of specific traits...

... interests? Certainly not, Barbara Herrnstein Smith asserts. Her whole book argues for the radical contingency of value. She spends a chapter demonstrating the failures of traditional axiology (that branch of philosophy dealing with the nature and types of value). In it she singles out Hume...

... as a positive force with which he aligns himself. Eventually, in an impassioned pursuit of the positive force, which is at once experiential and axiological, he can penetrate its essence and discover it$ value. This is experiential in manner, for the protagonist must follow the pursuit in the world...

... of the medieval axiology. Good Christians were old Christians; the caste system was preserved in the newly erected racial statutes; and the values of the feudal elite were reinvigorated by the obsession with honor that now gripped society. Heroism, romance, and the higher imperative of honor were...

...-and-fertility category, indissolubly linked with communal labor, not in need of sub- limation (210).11 Of course, this profoundly spatial, folkloric time, with all its onto- logical and axiological implications, can be preserved only in literature and, in the case of contemporary Chinese fiction...

... is never innocent or entirely imposed by the objective structures of the field, and while Smith disowns the idea that his choices exhaust or adequately represent post-Franco Spain, he takes “the Moderns” as an axiological class. Long resistant to modernity, Spain eventually embraced it as a project...

... post-Franco Spain, he takes “the Moderns” as an axiological class. Long resistant to modernity, Spain eventually embraced it as a project that had come to seem less than utopian. Indeed, Smith discreetly indicates in chapter 1 that if modernity is a matter of tautological valuation (one is modern...

... is never innocent or entirely imposed by the objective structures of the field, and while Smith disowns the idea that his choices exhaust or adequately represent post-Franco Spain, he takes “the Moderns” as an axiological class. Long resistant to modernity, Spain eventually embraced it as a project...

... post-Franco Spain, he takes “the Moderns” as an axiological class. Long resistant to modernity, Spain eventually embraced it as a project that had come to seem less than utopian. Indeed, Smith discreetly indicates in chapter 1 that if modernity is a matter of tautological valuation (one is modern...

... post-Franco Spain, he takes “the Moderns” as an axiological class. Long resistant to modernity, Spain eventually embraced it as a project that had come to seem less than utopian. Indeed, Smith discreetly indicates in chapter 1 that if modernity is a matter of tautological valuation (one is modern...

... is never innocent or entirely imposed by the objective structures of the field, and while Smith disowns the idea that his choices exhaust or adequately represent post-Franco Spain, he takes “the Moderns” as an axiological class. Long resistant to modernity, Spain eventually embraced it as a project...