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Max Dessoir (born February 8, 1867, Berlin – died July 19, 1947, Königstein im Taunus) was a German philosopher and theorist of aesthetics. He earned doctorates from the universities of Berlin (philosophy, 1889) and Würtzburg (medicine, 1892). He was a professor at Berlin from 1897 until 1933, when the Nazis forbade him to teach.

Considered a Neo-Kantian philosopher Max Dessoir founded the Zeitschift für Ästhetik und allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft, which he edited for many years, and published the work Ästhetik und allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft in which he formulated five primary aesthetic forms: the beautiful, the sublime, the tragic, the ugly, and the comic.

Dessoir is a surname and may refer to:
  • Ferdinand Dessoir (1836-1892), German actor
  • Ludwig Dessoir (1810-1874), German actor
  • Max Dessoir (1867-1947), German philosopher and theorist of aesthetics

See also

  • Dessau (disambiguation)

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