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The article explores the similarity between philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer's view of aesthetic experience as the perception of objective ideas by a will-less subject and essayist T. S. Eliot's ideas of objectivity and impersonality. Topics covered include the characterization by Eliot of the mind of a mature poet, the representation by Eliot of poetry through the analogy of a chemical reaction and the connection by Schopenhauer of his aesthetic philosophy with his ethics of compassion.

The article explores German philosopher Ernst Grosse's approach on art theory by drawing on the field of ethnology. In an 1891 essay "Ethnologie und Aesthetik," Grosse focused on past attempts to have ethnology answer questions in art theory. Grosse's analysis draws attention to what the author thinks are overlooked means of framing the study of art and aesthetics. The author claims that the global and interdisciplinary approach to art and aesthetics that Grosse hoped for is only being attempted again by an increasing number of scholars.