Archive for May, 2006

Centaurea montana

Perennial cornflower or mountain bluet is native to the mountains of southern Europe. However, thanks to its propensity to “escape” from gardens and naturalize, it can now be found as a non-native species throughout much of the rest of Europe and parts of North America. The Colorado State University’s Cooperative Extension has a tidy article […]

An Essay on Beauty and Judgment — Alexander Nehamas

Alexander Nehamas, who teaches at Princeton, is the author of several philosophical works, including The Art of Living.
Beauty is the most discredited philosophical notion—so discredited that I could not even find an entry for it in the index of the many books in the philosophy of art I consulted in order to find it discredited. […]


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