Winner 2017

The Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory: Religion and Morality in Enlightenment Germany and Scotland (CUP)

By Simon Grote

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.