{"product_id":"aesthetics-of-ugliness-a-critical-edition-paperback","title":"Aesthetics of Ugliness: A Critical Edition - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKarl Rosenkranz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eAesthetics of Ugliness\u003c\/i\u003e, published four years before Baudelaire's \u003ci\u003eFleurs du Mal\u003c\/i\u003e, hugely relevant to modernist experiment as well as to the twenty-first century theoretical revival of beauty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated into English for the first time, \u003ci\u003eAesthetics of Ugliness\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKarl Rosenkranz\u003c\/b\u003e (1805 -1879) 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrei Pop\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMechtild Widrich\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 24, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47730712379640,"sku":"9781350022928","price":74.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/Y25UZFNDMnJ4V082SzRCY0NhSGZaZz09.webp?v=1767398134","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/aesthetics-of-ugliness-a-critical-edition-paperback","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}