... I Therefore, the dilemma of aesthetic experience is, as the notion suggests, a double bind On the one hand, aesthetic experience is universal; it is 'for everyone' It is, to use the language of ... here aesthetic experience is no more than the taste of the lowest common denominator, the taste of the massmarket If aesthetic experience is indeed 'for everyone' , it exposes us to everyone' s ... in our reception of works of art Only as long as aesthetic experience remains problematic, only as long as our aesthetic experience makes us wonder about that of others, works of art have anything...