Aesthetic of Ugliness (Aesthetik des Hässlichen) is a book by German philosopher Karl Rosenkranz, written in 1853.
It is among the earliest writings on the philosophy of ugliness and "draws an analogy between ugliness and moral evil".
[1] Introduction Section 1: Formlessness Section 2: Incorrectness Section 3: Deformation or Disfiguration Conclusion Karl Rosenkranz, Aesthetics of Ugliness.
Translated by Andrei Pop and Mechtild Widrich.
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