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

ISBN-13: 9781107110922 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 308 str.

Simon Grote

Opis

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

Recenzje

'To be sure, Simon Grote's The Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory is an erudite, elaborate, and mature scholarly work.' Endre Szécsényi, The British Journal of Aesthetics

Spis treści

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.