Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory - Religion and Morality in Enlightenment Germany and Scotland

This new study of eighteenth-century aesthetic theory situates it in theological contexts that are crucial to explaining why it arose.

List 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.

About the author

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).

Summary

The history of aesthetic theory - the philosophical analysis of art and beauty - matters to nearly every discipline in the humanities and social sciences. Broad in its geographic scope yet grounded in original archival research, this book offers a strikingly new portrait of aesthetic theory's inception in the early eighteenth century.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Grote, Simon (Wellesley College Grote
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781107110922
• ISBN: 978-1-107-11092-2
• No. of pages: 308
• Series: Ideas in Context; Ideas in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History of Ideas, Germany, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Scotland, Philosophy: aesthetics, Western philosophy: Enlightenment