{"product_id":"9781108506137","title":"The Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory: Religion and Morality in Enlightenment Germany and Scotland","description":"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.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47117597835504,"sku":"9781108506137","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781108506137_p0.jpg?v=1763692305","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781108506137","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}