The Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory: Religion and Morality in Enlightenment Germany and Scotland - Couverture souple

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Grote, Simon

 
9781107527706: The Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory: Religion and Morality in Enlightenment Germany and Scotland
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1107527708 ISBN 13 : 9781107527706
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

Simon Grote is currently the Wellesley Faculty Assistant Professor of History at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, where he has taught since 2013. He previously spent three years at Princeton University's Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts after graduating with a Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley (2010), an M.Phil. in Political Thought and Intellectual History from the University of Cambridge (2006) and an A.B. from Harvard College, Massachusetts (2001).

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1107527708
ISBN 13 
9781107527706
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
308
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ISBN 10 :  1107110920 ISBN 13 :  9781107110922
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2017
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