The Trajectory of Ugliness - Non-Rational Variations within the Realm of Rationality

Author: Wang Qingwei
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: This book studies beauty from the perspective of the ugly. Ugliness is a uniquely important aesthetic category that does not conform to the norms of beauty as prescribed by human reason, but instead exhibits non-rational spiritual qualities. Ugliness is a negating stance, a non-rational image. The trajectory of ugliness refers to the fact that every progress in aesthetic consciousness manifests as the proliferation of disharmonious elements of ugliness in the concept of beauty. Ugliness and beauty complement each other. This book attempts to anticipate the reconstruction of aesthetic ideals in the practice of aesthetics, proposing that the establishment of a new rationality will rebuild the ideal of beauty, thereby freeing aesthetics from the absurdity of postmodern chaos and uncertainty. The new rationality will have a continuously constructed, dynamic, and open connotation, constantly self-correcting and developing under the interaction between subjects, constructing relatively certain rational standards amidst uncertainty to illuminate the ultimate meaning of life and point humanity toward a foundation for its existence.