The ugliness of Moses Mendelssohn : aesthetics, religion, and morality in the eighteenth century /

The ugliness of Moses Mendelssohn : aesthetics, religion, and morality in the eighteenth century /

The Ugliness of Moses Mendelssohn examines the idea of ugliness through four angles, philosophical aesthetics, early anthropology, physiognomy and portraiture in the eighteenth-century. Highlighting a theory that describes the benefit of encountering ugly objects in art and nature, eighteenth-centur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hochman, Leah (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.
Series:Routledge Jewish studies series.
Subjects:
Mendelsohn, Moses, > 1782-1861 > Portraits.
Ugliness > History > 18th century.
Aesthetics, European > 18th century.
Aesthetics > Religious aspects.
Arts and religion.
PHILOSOPHY / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies.

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