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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      October 2017
      October 2017
      ISBN:
      9781316275559
      9781107110922
      9781107527706
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316275559
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.58kg, 308 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.46kg, 308 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Philosophy, History of Ideas, History, Philosophy, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      Ideas in Context (117)
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    Subjects:
    History of Philosophy, History of Ideas, History, Philosophy, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Ideas in Context (117)
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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.

    Awards

    Winner, 2017 István Hont Book Prize, Institute of Intellectual History, University of St Andrews

    Reviews

    ‘To be sure, Simon Grote’s The Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory is an erudite, elaborate, and mature scholarly work.’

    Endre Szécsényi Source: The British Journal of Aesthetics

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