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The Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory

Religion and Morality in Enlightenment Germany and Scotland. Ideas in Context

By (author) Simon Grote
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Published: 26th Oct 2017
Dimensions: w 152mm h 229mm d 19mm
Weight: 582g
ISBN-10: 1107110920
ISBN-13: 9781107110922
Barcode No: 9781107110922
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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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'To be sure, Simon Grote's The Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory is an erudite, elaborate, and mature scholarly work.' Endre Szecsenyi, The British Journal of Aesthetics