{"product_id":"transgression-and-the-aesthetics-of-evil-9781487529079","title":"Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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’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 b\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction   1. Genius and the Spirit of Transgression   I. Rule-breakers II. The Poet and the Devil   2. Symbols of the Morally Bad   I. Grotesque Subversions  II. The Dialectic of Disgust   3. Evil and the Sublime    I. Between Elevation and Terror II. Representing Radical Evil   4. Wicked Spectators    I. The Mirth of Tragedy II. Crime and the Connoisseur   Epilogue   Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409160741207,"sku":"9781487529079","price":36.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487529079.jpg?v=1730505696","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/transgression-and-the-aesthetics-of-evil-9781487529079","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}