Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory

Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory

Religion and Morality in Enlightenment Germany and Scotland

Grote, Simon (Wellesley College, Massachusetts)

Cambridge University Press

10/2017

308

Dura

Inglês

9781107110922

15 a 20 dias

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.
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.
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