The emergence of modern aesthetic theory, religion and morality in Enlightenment Germany and Scotland, Simon Grote
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The emergence of modern aesthetic theory, religion and morality in Enlightenment Germany and Scotland, Simon Grote
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non fiction
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The emergence of modern aesthetic theory
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
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1005979066
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Simon Grote
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Ideas in contextCambridge Social Sciences eBooks
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religion and morality in Enlightenment Germany and Scotland
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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.--, Provided by publisher
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