First, they remind us that art-objects have claims upon us because of what is singular and excessive in their ways of appearing. Concepts of beauty seem to meet this demand because they focus attention on at least three basic features of the imaginative energies articulated by writers and artists that have proved resistant to the sociological gaze. Since political and sociological approaches to the arts seem to have outlasted their welcome, it has become important to develop alternatives more closely attuned to what artists and writers think they are doing in their work, as well as to what audiences have traditionally expected from such work. Indeed, the very appeal that "beauty" now has may be directly related to the cache that "power" had then. In the current condition of the academy, "beauty" appears to have attained the currency that "power" possessed in the 1980s.
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