## [[Aesthetic Engagement, according to Hopkins]] Prompt: [[How does]] [[the author]] characterise the essential features of aesthetic engagement? In [[Aesthetic Engagement, Imagining, and the Draw of the Real]] Hopkins argues that aesthetic engagement is pleasure driven, and that pleasure leads to the person observing the art to want to prolong that experience. This activity is open-ended and is not directed towards more defined goal than just experiencing. This leads to the appreciatory discovering more about [[the object]] they are are looking, leading to the possibility that they will discover something that makes them cease finding [[the object]] beautiful.