SOURCE: “Opening Conclusions” in Transfigured World: Walter Pater's Aesthetic Historicism, Cornell University Press, 1989, pp. 11-37.
In the following excerpt, Williams examines the infamous “Conclusion” to Studies in the History of the Renaissance and explains what Pater meant in proposing aesthetic distance as an alternative to prevailing modern thought.
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