Forbidden Aesthetics, Ethical Justice, And Terror In Modern Western Culture

The book explores the forbidden feelings of beauty, admiration, or satisfaction before instances of terror and human pain from eighteenth-century natural disasters to twenty-first-century terrorist destruction. It explores the fascination felt by the subject witnessing major disasters directly or in a mediated fashion. Emmanouil Aretoulakis' makes the challenging proposition that there is, paradoxically, an ethics in the aesthetic appraisal of terror.

• | Author: Emmanouil Aretoulakis
• | Publisher: Lexington Books
• | Publication Date: May 19, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 182 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1498513123
• | ISBN-13: 9781498513128