{"product_id":"transgression-and-the-aesthetics-of-evil-hardback-9781487529079","title":"Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil (Hardback) 9781487529079","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTransgression and the Aesthetics of Evil\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTaran Kang (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487529079\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 December 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm, 0.46 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow do we perceive evil? How do we represent evil? In \u003ci\u003eTransgression and the Aesthetics of Evil\u003c\/i\u003e, Taran Kang examines the entanglements of aesthetics and morality. Investigating conceptions and images of evil, Kang identifies a fateful moment of transformation in the eighteenth century that continues to reverberate to the present day. Transgression, once allocated the central place in the constitution of evil, undergoes a startling revaluation in the Enlightenment and its aftermath, one that needs to be understood in relation to emergent ideas in the arts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTaran Kang engages with the writings of Edmund Burke, the Marquis de Sade, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Hannah Arendt, among others, as he questions recent calls to \"de-aestheticize\" evil and insists on a historically informed appreciation of evil\u0026amp;#x2019;s aesthetic dimensions. Chapters consider the figure of the \"evil genius,\" the paradoxical appeal of the grotesque and the disgusting, and the moral status of spectators who behold scenes of suffering and acts of transgression. In grappling with these issues, \u003ci\u003eTransgression and the Aesthetics of Evil\u003c\/i\u003e questions the feasibility and desirability of insulating the moral from the aesthetic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Genius and the Spirit of Transgression\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI. Rule-breakers\u003cbr\u003eII. The Poet and the Devil\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Symbols of the Morally Bad\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI. Grotesque Subversions \u003cbr\u003eII. The Dialectic of Disgust\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Evil and the Sublime \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI. Between Elevation and Terror\u003cbr\u003eII. Representing Radical Evil\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Wicked Spectators \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI. The Mirth of Tragedy\u003cbr\u003eII. Crime and the Connoisseur\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595753681176,"sku":"9781487529079","price":33.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/transgression-and-the-aesthetics-of-evil-hardback-9781487529079","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}