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1 online resource (211 pages) |
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Routledge Jewish Studies Series |
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Routledge Jewish studies series.
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; Introduction: the eyes of the beholders; Aesthetic entanglements; Emancipatory claims; Visions of ugliness; Notes; Bibliography; 1 Moral aesthetics: what is the Ugly?; The rise of the aesthetic; Secularizing the aesthetic; German rationalism: the marriage of Beauty and Goodness; Beauty's opposite: on the Ugly; That which supersedes: on the Sublime; An aesthetics of Judaism; Notes; Bibliography; 2 Comeliness, glamour, ugliness: physical descriptions and moral implications |
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Climatic deformities"Natural" history; On the Americans: de Pauw; Johann Friedrich Blumenbach; Immanuel Kant; Notes; Bibliography; 3 Reading faces, reading souls: Johann Caspar Lavater's new physiognomy; Early physiognomy; Lavater's new physiognomy; The Physiognomical Fragments; Lavater's theology; Lavater's physiognomy: Jesus; Jewish faces: Pharisees, prophets, and sages; The importance of Lavater's ugly; Notes; Bibliography; 4 The Ugly made Beautiful: the meaning and appearance of Mendelssohn; The paradox; Mendelssohn as art; The portraits and their artists; Christian Rode and Anton Graff |
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Daniel ChodowieckiAdrian Zingg and Johann Frisch; Politics and reality; Notes; Bibliography; Conclusion; Index |
| Summary |
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 portrait |
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Print version record |
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Mendelsohn, Moses, 1782-1861 -- Portraits
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Mendelsohn, Moses, 1782-1861 |
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Ugliness -- History -- 18th century
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Aesthetics, European -- 18th century.
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Aesthetics -- Religious aspects.
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Arts and religion.
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Aesthetics, European
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Aesthetics -- Religious aspects
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Arts and religion
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Ugliness
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Portraits
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317669975 |
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1317669975 |
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