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The emergence of modern aesthetic theory : religion and morality in Enlightenment Germany and Scotland / Simon Grote

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Grote, Simon, 1979-
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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1 online resource (xiv, 280 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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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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9781316275559 (ebook)
9781107110922 (hardback)
9781107527706 (paperback)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Oct 2017).
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