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almahu_9947413757602882
Umfang:
1 online resource (xiv, 280 pages) :
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ISBN:
9781316275559 (ebook)
Serie:
Ideas in context
Inhalt:
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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Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: ISBN 9781107110922
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316275559
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