The phrase "aesthetic sphere" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a realm or domain related to beauty, art, or sensory experience.
Example: "In the aesthetic sphere, artists often explore the boundaries of perception and emotion."
Alternatives: "artistic realm" or "beauty domain".
Hence the disreputable allure of Péladan, who dared to speak aloud what usually remains implicit in the aesthetic sphere: belief in the artist's alchemical power, in the godlike nature of creation, in the oracular quality of genius.
"By defining Abstract Expressionist painting as a psychological event, it denied the aesthetic efficacy of painting itself and attempted to remove art from the only sphere in which it can be truly experienced, which is the aesthetic sphere," Mr. Kramer said in an interview on the occasion of receiving a medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2004.
The primary value of the aesthetic sphere, Lukács claims, can only be the work of art itself since this value is presupposed by any description of artistic production or aesthetic experience.
In the 1916 Aesthetics, Lukács adopts a much more radical version of this Neo-Kantian argument: whereas the reality of everyday life is characterized by a heterogeneity of forms of objects, the aesthetic sphere of validity is characterized by a distinct form of objectivity that is legislated as a norm by experience itself.
Who knew home-field advantage could extend so thoroughly into the aesthetic spheres?
"If we're going to throw shows, we're going to have local bands and they need to be from totally different aesthetic spheres," Pujol explains.
"Aesthetic life is a sphere of self-directed activity whose external ramifications, despite periodic utopian exuberances, are minimal at best," Robbins concludes (somewhat contradicting his "community" theory).
Herbert Muschamp attacks the Department of City Planning for "crossing a decisive line" and for setting up shop "in the sphere of aesthetic preference" ["Reaching for Power Over Streets and Sky," May 14].
He writes of his subjects, "By dressing up they can share their art with the world and bring their aesthetic into the public sphere.
Without even a nod to the quantifiable goals that brought zoning into being, it has set up shop in the sphere of aesthetic preference.
Arendt (1982) applies Kant's theory of aesthetic judgment within the sphere of political philosophy; relatedly, Fleischacker (1999) sees connections between aesthetic judgment for Kant and moral and political judgment generally.
