But are these aspects of my experiences sufficient to impart an aesthetic character to them? The possibility that there can be aesthetic experiences of things other than artworks, or that there can be aesthetic experiences that are not characterized by exaltation, has sometimes been excluded by definition. 3 Rather than entering into a terminological debate over the reasonableness of using ‘aesthetic’ in such an exclusive way, which would take me too far from the topic that primarily concerns me here, I will engage a more sympathetic interlocutor who would nonetheless hold that the experiences I have described cannot.
