{"product_id":"herders-naturalist-aesthetics","title":"Herder''s Naturalist Aesthetics","description":"In this book, Rachel Zuckert provides the first overarching account of Johann Gottfried Herder''s complex aesthetic theory. She guides the reader through Herder''s texts, showing how they relate to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European philosophy of art, and focusing on two main concepts: aesthetic naturalism, the view that art is natural to and naturally valuable for human beings as organic, embodied beings, and - unusually for Herder''s time - aesthetic pluralism, the view that aesthetic value takes many diverse and culturally varying forms. Zuckert argues that Herder''s theory plays a pivotal role in the history of philosophical aesthetics, marking the transition from the eighteenth-century focus on aesthetic value as grounded in human nature to the nineteenth-century focus on art as socially significant and historically variable. Her study illuminates Herder''s significance as an innovative thinker in aesthetics, and will interest a range of readers in philosophy of art and European thought.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57483496391029,"sku":"9781108483070","price":99.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781108483070.jpg?v=1786178665","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/herders-naturalist-aesthetics","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}