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Author Grote, Simon, 1979- author.

Title The emergence of modern aesthetic theory : religion and morality in Enlightenment Germany and Scotland / Simon Grote.

Publication Info. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Ideas in Context
Ideas in context.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover -- Half title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Transcription and Citation -- Introduction -- 1 Christian Wolff's Critics and the Foundation of Morality -- Wolffâ#x80;#x99;s Defense of Natural Obligation -- Johann Liborius Zimmermann -- Nicolaus Hieronymus Gundling -- Conclusion -- 2 Pietist Aisthesis, Moral Education, and the Beginnings of Aesthetic Theory -- Pietist Aisthesis and Moral Education -- Divine Inspiration and Sacred Poetry -- Baumgartenâ#x80;#x99;s Defense of Divine Inspiration
Anti-Stoic Resistance to WolffConclusion -- 3 Alexander Baumgarten's Intervention -- The Aesthetic Cultivation of Living Cognition -- Aesthetics and the Problem of â#x80;#x9C;Wolffianâ#x80;#x9D; Pedagogical Style -- Aesthetics and the Foundation of Morality -- Conclusion -- 4 Francis Hutcheson at the Margins of the Scottish Enlightenment -- The Shaftesburian Reform of Scottish Presbyterianism -- Hutchesonâ#x80;#x99;s Divergence from Shaftesbury -- Conclusion -- 5 William Cleghorn and the Aesthetic Foundation of Justice -- Cleghornâ#x80;#x99;s Life
Hutcheson and Hume on the Foundation of JusticeHutcheson against the Rationalists -- Cleghornâ#x80;#x99;s Alternative -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography
Summary This new study of eighteenth-century aesthetic theory situates it in theological contexts that are crucial to explaining why it arose.
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Subject Aesthetics, Modern -- History.
Aesthetics, Modern.
History.
Enlightenment -- Germany.
Enlightenment.
Germany.
Enlightenment -- Scotland.
Scotland.
Germany -- Religion.
Ethics -- Germany.
Religion.
Scotland -- Religion.
Ethics -- Scotland.
Ethics.
PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: Grote, Simon, 1979- Emergence of modern aesthetic theory. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017 9781107110922 (DLC) 2017020178 (OCoLC)983427752
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