About this title: A classic of 18th-century thought, Schiller's treatise on the role of art in society ranks among German philosophy's most profound works. An important contribution to the history of ideas, it employs a political analysis of contemporary society -- and of the French Revolution, in particular -- to define the relationship between beauty and art.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dover Pubns
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780486437392ISBN:0486437396
Description: New. A classic of 18th-century thought, Schiller's treatise on the role of art in society ranks among German philosophy's most profound works. An important contribution to the history of ideas, it employs a political analysis of contemporary society--an... read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications., Mineola, New York.
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780486437392ISBN:0486437396
Description: Trade paperback. 146pp, 5pp publishers catalog. A clean copy in vg condition. Originally published in 1795, this edition is an unabridged republication of the Yale University Press edition of 1954. read more
Binding: Hard Back
Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press, Oxford
Date Published: 1967
Description: Very Good/Fair. A sound book with clean pages and clear content. Edge wear of dust jacket and slight dicolouration of spine (sunning). read more
"Just read this for my philosophical literary criticism class. I felt like this one kept going round and round. Admittedly I ain't no philosophy aficionado, but I did enjoy some of Schiller's insights even if I didn't buy into his assumptions wholeheartedly."
"If only we could be as free or as mentally beautiful as Schiller envisioned. Best read before you turn 20, at which point the world he railed loudly against takes over.
Schiller is a much overlooked intellectual scholar outside of Germany. Along with Lessing, Goethe, and some lesser influential renaissance men, Schiller embodies Aufklarung humanism like few others. His plays are too preachy and his poems can never be found translated by decent individuals, but in the essays, his optimism is almost transforming.
Also check out his essays "On the Sublime", "On the Tragic", and his lengthy history of the Thirty Years War."
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