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The Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory - Religion and Morality in Enlightenment Germany and Scotland (Paperback)
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The Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory - Religion and Morality in Enlightenment Germany and Scotland (Paperback)
Series: Ideas in Context
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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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