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OverviewTransgression and the Aesthetics of Evil explores literary representations of evil, pursuing the points of intersection between aesthetics and morality. How do we perceive evil? How do we represent evil? In Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil, 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. Taran 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 behold scenes of suffering and acts of transgression. In grappling with these issues, Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil questions the feasibility and desirability of insulating the moral from the aesthetic. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Taran KangPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.460kg ISBN: 9781487529079ISBN 10: 1487529074 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 15 December 2021 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviews""Philosophically acute, theoretically adept, and elegantly composed, Taran Kang's Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil explores the fraught and fascinating terrain where the aesthetic and ethical transect. Mindful of the interdiction on aestheticizing evil while also attentive to the emancipatory capacities of transgression, Kang traces evil from the eighteenth century's commitment to the moral claims of aesthetic projects through subsequent assertions of aesthetic autonomy to produce an epistemic intervention in the apperception of evil."" --Marian Eide, Professor of English, Texas A&M University ""The definition of evil has posed an ongoing problem for the post-theological world, in which there is 'nothing to fall back on, ' in Hannah Arendt's notable words. Taran Kang's remarkable book turns to the aesthetics of evil not for distraction, temptation, or even subversion, but rather to insist on the moral and political capacities of the imagination itself. This is an erudite and rigorous study that will be of key importance to a wide readership with interest in modern intellectual history, philosophy, and the arts."" --Michael P. Steinberg, Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History and Professor of Music and German Studies, Brown University """Philosophically acute, theoretically adept, and elegantly composed, Taran Kang's Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil explores the fraught and fascinating terrain where the aesthetic and ethical transect. Mindful of the interdiction on aestheticizing evil while also attentive to the emancipatory capacities of transgression, Kang traces evil from the eighteenth century's commitment to the moral claims of aesthetic projects through subsequent assertions of aesthetic autonomy to produce an epistemic intervention in the apperception of evil.""--Marian Eide, Professor of English, Texas A&M University ""The definition of evil has posed an ongoing problem for the post-theological world, in which there is 'nothing to fall back on, ' in Hannah Arendt's notable words. Taran Kang's remarkable book turns to the aesthetics of evil not for distraction, temptation, or even subversion, but rather to insist on the moral and political capacities of the imagination itself. This is an erudite and rigorous study that will be of key importance to a wide readership with interest in modern intellectual history, philosophy, and the arts.""--Michael P. Steinberg, Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History and Professor of Music and German Studies, Brown University" Philosophically acute, theoretically adept, and elegantly composed, Taran Kang's Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil explores the fraught and fascinating terrain where the aesthetic and ethical transect. Mindful of the interdiction on aestheticizing evil while also attentive to the emancipatory capacities of transgression, Kang traces evil from the eighteenth century's commitment to the moral claims of aesthetic projects through subsequent assertions of aesthetic autonomy to produce an epistemic intervention in the apperception of evil. - Marian Eide, Professor of English, Texas A&M University The definition of evil has posed an ongoing problem for the post-theological world, in which there is 'nothing to fall back on, ' in Hannah Arendt's notable words. Taran Kang's remarkable book turns to the aesthetics of evil not for distraction, temptation, or even subversion, but rather to insist on the moral and political capacities of the imagination itself. This is an erudite and rigorous study that will be of key importance to a wide readership with interest in modern intellectual history, philosophy, and the arts. - Michael P. Steinberg, Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History and Professor of Music and German Studies, Brown University Author InformationTaran Kang is an assistant professor of Humanities at Yale-NUS College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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