Theories of Ugliness
an unseemly aesthetic history
$40.03
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2025
Summary
The Unsightly Truth: Unveiling Theories of Ugliness
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350425606 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1350425605 |
| Author: | Mark William Roche |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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About The Author
Mark William Roche
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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