EAN: 9783039119004

THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE MONSTROUS KARTONIERT (TB)

The composition of aesthetic beauty and its necessary correlation with the counterparts of
ugliness and monstrosity have been the primary concerns of artists and philosophers through the
ages. This collection of articles  selected from the proceedings of a conference on the theme
of The Beautiful and the Monstrous that took place at Cambridge University in April 2008  seeks
to reassess conceptualizations and representations of beauty and monstrosity and offers a
timely critical evaluation of the relationship between the two. By means of a variety of
theoretical approaches and methodologies  the authors provide rigorous analyses of
philosophical and artistic expression from medieval to contemporary literature  thought and
culture from France and across the French-speaking world. Throughout  they seek to challenge
traditional approaches by addressing a diverse range of questions that relate to the beautiful
and the monstrous: from formal  metaphysical and ethical considerations of aesthetics  to the
threat of the monstrous in realms of psychoanalysis and politics  from figures of beauty and
monstrosity as prescriptive social and identitarian categories  to transformations and
metamorphoses which challenge the boundaries between human and monstrous other. Engaging with
discourses on aesthetics  metaphysics  ethics  politics  psychoanalysis  feminism and
postcolonialism  and discussing a spectrum of figures from angels to zombies  this collection
offers a fresh range of perspectives on a fundamental transgeneric and transdisciplinary topic.

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