Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller
Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller gathers the chief philosophical writings of the German dramatist, written in the 1790s under the influence of Kant. The center of the volume is the Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man, in which Schiller argues that political freedom must be preceded by the cultivation of a free and harmonious character, and that beauty, which reconciles sense and reason in play, is the means of that education. Around it stand the essays On Grace and Dignity, On the Pathetic, On the Sublime, On Simple and Sentimental Poetry, The Stage as a Moral Institution and On the Tragic Art. Schiller's claim that the aesthetic is a human need, not a decoration, has shaped the theory of art since. It is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, with the first chapter free.
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