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The Ugliness of Moses Mendelssohn - Aesthetics, Religion & Morality in the Eighteenth Century (Paperback)
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The Ugliness of Moses Mendelssohn - Aesthetics, Religion & Morality in the Eighteenth Century (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series
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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-century German Jewish philosopher Moses
Mendelssohn recasts ugliness as a positive force for moral
education and social progress. According to his theory, ugly
objects cause us to think more and thus exercise-and expand-our
mental abilities. Known as ugly himself, he was nevertheless
portrayed in portraits and in physiognomy as an image of wisdom,
gentility, and tolerance. That seeming contradiction-an ugly object
(Mendelssohn) made beautiful-illustrates his theory's possibility:
ugliness itself is a positive, even redeeming characteristic of
great opportunity. Presenting a novel approach to eighteenth
century aesthetics, this book will be of interest to students and
scholars in the fields of Jewish Studies, Philosophy and History.
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