{"product_id":"9781107110922","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":48711522484459,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":243.54,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781107110922-1.jpg?v=1781654326","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9781107110922","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}