Philosophy of horror
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Any philosophy of horror and the representation thereof (which is also the theory of the aestheticization of violence) needs to start with Aristotle, who said on the subject:
- “Objects which in themselves we view with pain, we delight to contemplate when reproduced with minute fidelity: such as the forms of the most ignoble animals and of dead bodies.” –Aristotle from the Poetics.
See also
- Art horror
- The Naked and the Undead by Cynthia Freeland
- Dark Thoughts: Philosophic Reflections on Cinematic Horror by Daniel Shaw and Steven Jay Schneider
- The Philosophy of Horror or Paradoxes of the Heart (1990) by Noël Carroll
- Collapse Volume IV: 'Concept Horror'
- Powers of Horror by Julia Kristeva
- On Tragic Art
- Discourse on the horror of art
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