Theories of Ugliness: An Unseemly Aesthetic History
Author:   Mark William Roche (University of Notre Dame, USA)
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Pages:   304
Publication Date:   16 October 2025
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Theories of Ugliness: An Unseemly Aesthetic History


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Author:   Mark William Roche (University of Notre Dame, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9781350425606


ISBN 10:   1350425605
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   16 October 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
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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 Works Cited

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Mark William Roche is Professor of German Language and Literature, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, USA. He is author of Alfred Hitchcock: Filmmaker and Philosopher (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), and Why Literature Matters in the 21st Century (2004).

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