Ugliness: A Cultural History by Gretchen E. Henderson
Zakiya Harris reviews Ugliness: A Cultural History by Gretchen E. Henderson today in Rumpus Books.
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Join NOW!Zakiya Harris reviews Ugliness: A Cultural History by Gretchen E. Henderson today in Rumpus Books.
...more“I can’t help wondering if ugliness is not indispensable to philosophy. Sartre seems to be suggesting that thinking — serious, sustained questioning — arises out of, or perhaps with, a consciousness of one’s own ugliness.” In a recent installment of the New York Time’s philosophy column The Stone, Andy Martin ponders the ugliness of Jean-Paul […]
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