Sri Aurobindo’s aesthetics yields a complete approach, a rich harvest

The present writer would like to hope, in fact, would like to shout from the house-top, if necessary, that it is time that we introduced in Indian University-curriculum at the Post-graduate levels, a school of aesthetics and criticism called ‘Aurobindonian’ to supplement the other approaches such as Biographical, Historical, Formalist, Freudian, Jungian, and Genetic etc., because Sri Aurobindo’s aesthetics yields a complete approach, a rich harvest, self-contained, self-subsistent; it has a range and depth which goes beyond the other schools and it is holistic and also wholistic. -- H.R. Justa, Preface, The Search for Beauty, Ajanta-1988