Steiner writes that her book "is an argument for the subjectivity of aesthetic response, an attempt to explain what it means to invest art with value and derive pleasure from it. It tries to demonstrate the utility of a liberal aesthetics in which art is...a virtual realm tied to the world by acts of interpretation." The author considers the controversial issues of censorship, political correctness, anti Semitism and academic scholarship. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.