Definition of "æsthetic"

In the absence of any æsthetic criteria, money is the only yardstick. All “tastes”, like all “needs”, are attended to by the market.

1995, Richard Appignanesi [orig. ed.], Ziauddin Sardar, and Patrick Curry, Introducing Postmodernism, page 47, “Eclectic Postmodernism” (Icon Books UK / Totem Books USA;