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Concerning the Necessary Limits in the Use of Beautiful Forms (1795)
In his essay On the necessary limits in the use of beautiful forms Schiller delineates to what degree beautiful packaging of philosophical thoughts is beneficial, as opposed to cases where it merely masks an inco...
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On the Sublime (1801)
Zelle offers a concise analysis of Schiller’s late essay On the Sublime (1801). He discusses the controversial history of its origin, takes into account its publication context and gives an outlook on the history...
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Schiller on Politics and Political Theory
This contribution explores the political dimension of Schiller’s theoretical writings as well as his plays. Introducing into the basic theses of Schiller’s political approach in the context of his anthropologi...
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Schiller’s Aesthetics: Beauty Is Freedom
Friedrich Schiller’s aesthetics targets an education of the whole person, sense-wise and rationality-wise. Develo** a culture of beauty, respecting the morality of the individual, but always striving towards...
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“Upward to Freedom”: Schiller on the Nature and Goals of Aesthetic Education
In this chapter, Louden focuses primarily on Schiller’s rich but elusive concept of aesthetic education, in an attempt to answer the following key questions: Why does Schiller place so much weight on aesthetic...
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J. Chr. Fr. Schiller: A Life as Mensch of Letters
High’s concise biography focuses on the interplay of Schiller’s personal life and his development as an author and philosopher. After an introduction to Schiller’s early years, family, and university studies, ...
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The Role of Philosophy in Schiller’s Poetry
Feminella explores the ways in which Schiller both explicitly and implicitly addresses philosophical concepts in the poems “Ode to Joy,” “The Gods of Greece,” “The Artists,” “The Realm of Shadows,” “The Wordly...
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The Development of Schiller’s Philosophical Attitude: Schiller’s Philosophical Education
Schiller’s philosophical attitude developed early on and remained unswerving thereafter, being unaffected by either intellectual or personal events. This was mainly due to the education he had received at the ...
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Schiller and Kant on Grace and Beauty
Schiller’s essay “On Grace and Dignity” has been taken by many, including Kant himself, to be an attack on Kant’s moral philosophy, understood as requiring that moral motivation must always be a struggle betwe...
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Schiller and the Birth of German Idealism
Friedrich Schiller’s significance for philosophy was established in an irrefutable way by the Neo-Kantians. Following Kuno Fischer’s brilliant lectures in Jena in 1858 under the title of “Schiller as Philosoph...
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What Effect Can a Good Permanent Theatre Actually Achieve? (1785)
In his so-called Schaubühnenrede [theatre speech], Schiller presents his theory of the theatre as a public medium: as one of the most important stately institutions, comparable to religion and the law but ultimat...
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The Controversy Between Schiller and Johann Gottlieb Fichte
In this chapter, Acosta shows that the well-known Horen-Dispute—the epistolary polemic in the summer of 1795 initiated by Schiller’s rejection of an article submitted by Fichte for publication in Die Horen—actual...
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The Neo-Kantians and Schiller’s Transcendental Idealism
It is a tale often told, and one that has never lost much in the retelling. Scholars never cease to ponder the Schiller-Kant relationship, which continues to be controversial. It is not hard to see why. Schill...
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On the Cause of the Pleasure We Derive from Tragic Objects (1792)
Zelle offers a concise analysis of Schiller’s essay On the Cause of the Pleasure We Derive from Tragic Objects (1792). Zelle emphasises that the essay takes up an aesthetic trend in the second half of the eightee...
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Friedrich Schiller and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Rocco Lozano studies the relationship between Schiller and Hegel, specifically in the fields of philosophy of history and political philosophy. In particular, he focuses on the influence of the Roman world and...
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Kallias, or Concerning Beauty (1793)
The Letters Concerning Beauty, or Kalliasbriefe, as they are better known within Schiller’s scholarship, are a series of letters that Schiller exchanged with his good friend Gottfried Körner between January 25 an...
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Schiller and Critical Theory
To inquire after the relationship of Schiller’s theoretical writings to contemporary critical theory is to inquire about no less than the future of the relation between aesthetic and social thought. Long class...
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Concerning the Sublime (1793) / On the Pathetic (1801)
Zelle offers a concise analysis of Schiller’s essay Concerning the Sublime (1793/94), which reappears in 1801 with the omission of an initial part under the title On the Pathetic. Zelle examines the way Schiller’...
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Letters on the Aesthetic Education (1795)
Only six letters and the beginning of a seventh letter survive from ten original letters that Schiller composed to his patron Prince Friedrich Christian von Schleswig-Holstein-Augustenburg in 1793. These “Augu...
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On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry (1795/96)
While working on Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man, Schiller was already devising and drafting an essay that derived a special theory of poetry and literature from the principles of his general aesthetics...
