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9781472568854

Aesthetics of Ugliness A Critical Edition

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  • ISBN13:

    9781472568854

  • ISBN10:

    1472568850

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2015-07-30
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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Summary

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 prints. Rosenkranz, living and teaching, like Kant, in remote Königsberg, reflects on phenomena of modern urban life from a distance that results in critical illumination. The struggle with modernization and idealist aesthetics makes Aesthetics of Ugliness, published four years before Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal, hugely relevant to modernist experiment as well as to the twenty-first century theoretical revival of beauty.

Translated into English for the first time, Aesthetics of Ugliness is an indispensable work for scholars and students of modern aesthetics and modernist art, literary studies and cultural theory, which fundamentally reworks conceptual understandings of what it means for a thing to be ugly.

Author Biography

Karl Rosenkranz was a German philosopher. He followed Kant and Herbart as professor of philosophy in Königsberg; in 1848-49 he took part in the reform government in Berlin.

Andrei Pop is Associate Professor in the Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago, USA.

Mechtild Widrich is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents:
1. Introductory essay by Andrei Pop and Mechtild Widrich

2. Karl Rosenkranz, Aesthetics of Ugliness, 1853

3. The Text:
Introduction
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Conclusion
Rosenkranz's and editors' notes

4. Texts crucial to the understanding of the Aesthetics of Ugliness:
i) Rosenkranz’s review of Hegel's Aesthetics, 1836 and 1839
ii) Rosenkranz's entry on "Aesthetics in its Development" in the Brockhaus Conversation-Lexikon, 1838
iii) Rosenkranz, “Beauty and Art” section of his System of Science, 1850

Bibliography
Index

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