How Long to Read Aesthetics of Ugliness

How Long Does it Take to Read Aesthetics of Ugliness?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 44 minutes to read Aesthetics of Ugliness by Karl Rosenkranz

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In this key text in the history of art and aesthetics, Karl Rosenkranz shows ugliness to be the negation of beauty without being reducible to evil, materiality, or other negative terms used it's conventional condemnation. This insistence on the specificity of ugliness, and on its dynamic status as a process afflicting aesthetic canons, reflects Rosenkranz's interest in the metropolis - like Walter Benjamin, he wrote on Paris and Berlin - and his voracious collecting of caricature and popular prints. Rosenkranz, living and teaching, like Kant, in remote Königsberg, reflects on phenomena of modern urban life from a distance that results in critical illumination. The struggle with modernization and idealist aesthetics makes Aesthetics of Ugliness, published four years before Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal, hugely relevant to modernist experiment as well as to the twenty-first century theoretical revival of beauty. Translated into English for the first time, Aesthetics of Ugliness is an indispensable work for scholars and students of modern aesthetics and modernist art, literary studies and cultural theory, which fundamentally reworks conceptual understandings of what it means for a thing to be ugly.

How long is Aesthetics of Ugliness?

Aesthetics of Ugliness by Karl Rosenkranz is 336 pages long, and a total of 86,016 words.

This makes it 113% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Aesthetics of Ugliness Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 50 minutes to read Aesthetics of Ugliness aloud.

What Reading Level is Aesthetics of Ugliness?

Aesthetics of Ugliness is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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