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    It is not the case that Negative aesthetic qualities have been underrepresented in prevailing aesthetics discourse

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    • 1.The sublime tradition from Burke and Kant centrally theorizes terror, vastness, and overwhelming negative affect as aesthetic categories.
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    • 2.Tragedy as an aesthetic form has been analyzed from Aristotle through Nietzsche precisely as the productive engagement with suffering, horror, and destruction.
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    • 3.If foundational aesthetic traditions systematically address negative affect, the claim of underrepresentation conflates 'not labeled negative' with 'absent from discourse'.
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    • 1.The concept of 'negative aesthetic qualities' presupposes a stable positive/negative distinction that is itself theoretically contested in aesthetics.
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    • 2.Hegel's aesthetics treats ugliness and contradiction as dialectically necessary moments within beauty, giving negative qualities a constitutive rather than marginal role.
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    • 1.Negative qualities such as ugliness, grotesqueness, repulsiveness, and disgust do not occupy a prominent place in aesthetics discourse
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    • 2.Notable exceptions addressing negative aesthetics (Korsmeyer 2011, Forsey 2016) are few
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