The Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory : Religion and Morality in Enlightenment Germany and Scotland Paperback / softback
by Simon (Wellesley College, Massachusetts) Grote
Part of the Ideas in Context series
Paperback / softback
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Broad in its geographic scope and yet grounded in original archival research, this book situates the inception of modern aesthetic theory – the philosophical analysis of art and beauty - in theological contexts that are crucial to explaining why it arose.
Simon Grote presents seminal aesthetic theories of the German and Scottish Enlightenments as outgrowths of a quintessentially Enlightenment project: the search for a natural 'foundation of morality' and a means of helping naturally self-interested human beings transcend their own self-interest.
This conclusion represents an important alternative to the standard history of aesthetics as a series of preludes to the achievements of Immanuel Kant, as well as a reinterpretation of several canonical figures in the German and Scottish Enlightenments.
It also offers a foundation for a transnational history of the Enlightenment without the French philosophes at its centre, while solidly endorsing historians' growing reluctance to call the Enlightenment a secularising movement.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:307 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:28/11/2019
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- ISBN:9781107527706
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:307 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:28/11/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781107527706
