Theories of Ugliness
An Unseemly Aesthetic History
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 16 October 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350425590
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
An engrossing history of how Western philosophers have theorized the ugly from ancient times to the present day.
MoreLong description:
Why has our preoccupation with concepts, standards, and theories of the beautiful not resulted in a correspondingly comprehensive theoretical treatment of the ugly? Theories of Ugliness remedies this by gathering and scrutinising ideas of the ugly and unsightly from across the history of Western aesthetic and philosophical writing.
Taking in ancient, medieval and early modern concepts, all the way through to more recent Anglo-American conceptions, this book reveals the extraordinary preoccupation with ugliness exhibited by some of Germany's leading philosophers. Fascinating insights into ugliness from dialectical, categorical or purely aesthetic perspectives are found in thinkers such as Hegel, Lessing, Schlegel, Nietzsche, Adorno, Julia Kristeva and most notably Karl Rosenkranz. Whether as a counterpoint to beauty, a target of negation, a literary device, or a victim of humour, ugliness runs throughout the history of Western thought. This compelling study brings that thought together to offer a fresh view that will change the way that scholars think about the ugly.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part One: Early Reflections
1. Plato and Aristotle
2. Medieval Absence
3. Maggi, Rocco, and the Early Modern Era
Part Two: The German (and European) Tradition
4. Lessing and Early German Thinkers
5. Hegel and the Earliest Hegelians
6. Rosenkranz and Schasler
7. Nietzsche and the Writers
8. The Academic Philosophers
9. Theodor Adorno's Elevation of Ugliness
10. Recent Continental Perspectives
Part Three: The Anglo-American Tradition
11. From Darwin to the Neo-Hegelians
12. Contemporary Perspectives: Goodman, Sibley, and Danto
Part Four: A Contemporary Objective Idealist Theory of Ugliness
Afterward
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