The Perils of Uglytown: Studies in Structural Misanthropology from Plato to Rembrandt
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The Perils of Uglytown develops a new concept, structural misanthropology, and traces its operation first in the dialogues of Plato and then in the work of humanists, playwrights, and painters of the Renaissance in Italy, England, and the Netherlands.
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