The emergence of modern aesthetic theory : religion and morality in Enlightenment Germany and Scotland
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The emergence of modern aesthetic theory : religion and morality in Enlightenment Germany and Scotland
(Ideas in context / edited by Quentin Skinner (general editor) ... [et al.], 117)
Cambridge University Press, 2019, c2017
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-272) and index
"First published 2017. First paperback edition 2019"--T.p. verso
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 1. Christian Wolff's critics and the foundation of morality
- 2. Pietist aisthesis, moral education, and the beginnings of aesthetic theory
- 3. Alexander Baumgarten's intervention
- 4. Francis Hutcheson at the margins of the Scottish Enlightenment
- 5. William Cleghorn and the aesthetic foundation of justice
- Conclusion.
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