He brought the moral and the aesthetic into opposition by re-interpreting what we might call the disinterest thesis the thesis that pleasure in the beautiful is disinterested (though see Cooper 1711, 222 and Home 2005, 36 38 for anticipations of Kant's re-interpretation).
While a cow may be uninterested, it cannot surely be disinterested, in the manner of a rational being for whom disinterest is the most passionate form of interest.
It betrays a fundamental disinterest in what homes are like inside and how it is to live in them.
He has set up a rival group, the Pacific Islands Development Forum, which met in June this year and managed to secure Indonesia's president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, as its keynote speaker.Given those challenges to the PIF, and that level of disinterest among some of its leaders, the prospects for substantial commitments to pooling sovereignty may seem slender.
It is nothing like the Pirates, another protest party that briefly surged in recent years (mainly on geeky issues such as online copyright) before evaporating again in chaos and disinterest.
Statewide, then, Texas's general election turnout may be lagging for the same reason it always lags: largely uncompetitive races and widespread disinterest.
But the right-wing government's disinterest in determining these suspects' guilt or innocence suggests that it is more concerned with courting anti-immigrant and law-and-order conservatives at home than with the fight for justice abroad.
He and Mr Grillo launched M5S on the feast day of St Francis, whose disinterest in money Mr Casaleggio sees as a counterpoint to the rapaciousness of Italian parties and politicians.
Rather, its low profile reflects the disinterest even those on Wall Street take in the infrastructure of markets.
The past week reinforced a handful of damaging perceptions of euro-zone leaders: a general lack of competence, the core's insensitivity to peripheral economic pain, a disinterest in democratic accountability.
His disinterest certainly did not extend to his power and glory.
