{"product_id":"9781107527706","title":"The Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory : Religion and Morality in Enlightenment Germany and Scotland (Ideas in Context)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBroad 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45419403771983,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":1645.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/9174\/2287\/files\/9781107527706-1.jpg?v=1780448114","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/products\/9781107527706","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}