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The Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory
Simon Grote
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Religion and Morality in Enlightenment Germany and Scotland
出版Cambridge University Press, 2017-10-26
主題History / Europe / GermanyHistory / Europe / Great Britain / ScotlandHistory / Modern / 18th CenturyHistory / Social HistoryPhilosophy / GeneralPhilosophy / AestheticsPolitical Science / History & Theory
ISBN11071109209781107110922
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pV0yDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.