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This book is a question about rebellion and its history, as it traces the effects of liberating beauty from classical canons based on the opposition of concepts, such as: beauty and ugliness. So that beauty can now express itself through these opposites and their convergence, so ugliness is no longer a denial of beauty, but rather its other face! This book falls into three sections, each containing three chapters. The first deals with the emergence of the problem of ugliness in aesthetic thought, through “Rosencrantz’s Aesthetics of the Ugly,” then “Bosanquet’s Theory of the Concept of Ugliness,” and finally “The Ugly and the Unbeautiful according to Walter Stace.” As for the second chapter, it presents “Baudrillard and Industrial Ugliness,” through the conflict between original and copy, through the conspiracy of art, and the ugliness of art in the world of hyperreality. The third and final chapter deals with “Umberto Eco and the History of Beauty and Ugliness,” in which we present the ugly in classical times through the aesthetics of monsters, the aesthetic embodiment of Satan, then the philosophies of ugliness in the modern era, and finally what Eco called the era of the triumph of ugliness. These philosophers wonder whether it is possible to make an aesthetic judgment about ugliness, and through this book we try - within a framework of historical and analytical research - to arrive at the concept of ugliness and its relationship to the concept of beauty and what can be called “the aesthetics of ugliness.”