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Aesthetics of Ugliness : A Critical Edition by Karl Rosenkranz, Andrei Pop, Mechtild Widrich is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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In this key text in the history of art and aesthetics, Karl Rosenkranz shows ugliness to be the negation of beauty without being reducible to evil, materiality, or other negative terms used it's conventional condemnation. This insistence on the specificity of ugliness, and on its dynamic status as a process afflicting aesthetic canons, reflects Rosenkranz's interest in the metropolis - like Walter Benjamin, he wrote on Paris and Berlin - and his voracious collecting of caricature and popular pri
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Karl Rosenkranz, Andrei Pop, Mechtild Widrich
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781474219594
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Architecture, Art
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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