...the individual. The beautiful,' he said, 'is composed of an eternal, unvarying element of which the quantity is excessively difficult to determine, and of a relative, circumstantial element which is, if you like, in turn or all together, period, fashion, morality, passion.' 84 But if we ask more...

...definition of modernity: Beauty is made up of an eternal, invariable element, whose quantity is expressively difficult to determine, and of a relative, circumstantial element, which will be, if you like, whether severally or all at once, the age, its fashions, its morals, its emotions.32 Reality, then,...

...form of beauty by means of which it may have access to a transcendent reality: "Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element, whose quantity...excessively difficult to determine, and of a relative, contingent element, which is, if you like, either by turns or all at once, a period, fashion, morality,...

...Baudelaire's notion of beauty: "Beauty is made up of an eternal, invariable element, whose quantity it is excessively difficult to determine, and of a relative,...circumstantial element, which will be, if you like, whether severally or all at once, the age, its fashions, its morals, its emotions."30 Every "scrap...

...inevitably of a double composition ... made up of an eternal, invariable element, whose quantity it is excessively difficult to determine, and of a relative,...circumstantial element, which will be, if you like, whether severally or all at once, the age, its fashions, its morals, its emotions.' Baudelaire amplified...

...the eternal and the temporal: Beauty is made up of an eternal, invariable element, whose quantity it is excessively difficult to determine, and of a relative,...circumstantial element, which will be, if you like, whether severally or all at once, the age, its fashions, its morals, its emotions. Without this second...