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On the Aesthetic Education of Man

On the Aesthetic Education of Man more books like this

by Friedrich Schiller, Reginald Snell (Translator)

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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Friedrich Schiller: Drama, Thought and Politics

Friedrich Schiller: Drama, Thought and Politics more books like this

by Lesley Sharpe, H B Nisbet (Editor), Martin Swales (Editor)

This is the first general study of Friedrich Schiller's works to appear in English for over forty years. Lesley Sharpe assesses Schiller's development as a dramatist, poet and thinker, and provides detailed discussions of all his major works, including his essays on aesthetics. His works are viewed against the social, political and literary ...

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Schiller's Aesthetic Essays: Two Centuries of Criticism more books like this

by Lesley Sharpe

Friedrich Schiller, the dramatist and poet, greatly influenced the development of aesthetics through his essays. He sums up the eighteenth century while anticipating modern ideas; his notions of the naive and the sentimental, of art as play, and of beauty as semblance, have had a lasting impact on aesthetic speculation.Dr Sharpe's book is the ...

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Goethe and Schiller: Their Lives and Works Including a Commentary on Goethe's Faust

Goethe and Schiller: Their Lives and Works Including a Commentary on Goethe's Faust more books like this

by Hjalmar H Boyesen

Study Of Goethe's Faust, Along With Biography Of The Two Poets.

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Analytical Psychology and German Classical Aesthetics: Goethe, Schiller and Jung: Volume 2: The Constellation of Self

Analytical Psychology and German Classical Aesthetics: Goethe, Schiller and Jung: Volume 2: The Constellation of Self more books like this

by Paul Bishop

"Analytical Psychology and German Classical Aesthetics: Goethe, Schiller, and Jung", volume 1, "The Development of the Personality" investigates the extent to which analytical psychology draws on concepts found in German classical aesthetics. It aims to place analytical psychology in the German-speaking tradition of Goethe and Schiller, with which ...

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Schiller to Derrida: Idealism in Aesthetics

Schiller to Derrida: Idealism in Aesthetics more books like this

by Juliet Sychrava

Schiller to Derrida is a historical critique of literary theory in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Starting with the work of Kant and Schiller, it traces an idealist tradition through nineteenth-century Romantic theory (including Wordsworth and Coleridge) and the New Critics to post-structuralists, notably Derrida. The book ...

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Schiller as Philosopher: A Re-Examination

Schiller as Philosopher: A Re-Examination more books like this

by Frederick Beiser

Fred Beiser, renowned as one of the world's leading historians of German philosophy, presents a brilliant new study of Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), rehabilitating him as a philosopher worthy of serious attention. Beiser shows, in particular, that Schiller's engagement with Kant is far more subtle and rewarding than is often portrayed. ...

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Essays

Essays more books like this

by Friedrich Schiller, J Friedrich Von Schiller, Walter Hinderer (Editor)

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Schiller's Wound: The Theater of Trauma from Crisis to Commodity

Schiller's Wound: The Theater of Trauma from Crisis to Commodity more books like this

by Stephanie Hammer

One of the founders of German national literature, Friedrich A. Schiller (1759-1805) was that country's most important neoclassical playwright. In "Schiller's Wound", Stephanie Hammer shows that Schiller was also one of the first self-conscious explorers of psychological trauma in the theatre.In a revisionist reading of Schiller, Hammer re ...

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The Works of Thomas Carlyle

The Works of Thomas Carlyle more books like this

by Thomas Carlyle

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SUMMARY SHOOTING NIAGARA: AND AFTER? Present critical epoch of England's history. Democracy to complete itself,?in a Parliament zealously watched by Penny Newspapers. ...

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Dialectic of Love more books like this

by David Pugh

Unravelling the contradictions and complexities of Friedrich Schiller's aesthetic thought, David Pugh illuminates the inner dynamics of these writings and places them within a wider philosophical and cultural context. Modern discussions tend to focus on Schiller's thought in relation to the Enlightenment, but Pugh argues that his ideas have a ...

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Images of Goethe Through Schiller's Egmont

Images of Goethe Through Schiller's Egmont more books like this

by David G John

Analyzing an unpublished script of Schiller's adaptation of Goethe's "Egmont", David John examines the collaboration between the two playwrights as a means of addressing questions on the roles of text and performance. Performance, he asserts, not text, constitutes the essence of dramatic and theatrical experience. John argues that shifting the ...

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Friedrich Schiller: Crime, Aesthetics, and the Poetics of Punishment more books like this

by Gail Kathleen Hart

Schiller's fascination with crime and criminals is well-documented, but relatively little scholarship exists on his engagement with punishment, either as state-sponsored retribution or as a neutralizing gesture intended to restore pre-crime equilibrium. While pointing to new ways of receiving and reacting to crime in his dramas, fiction, and ...

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Friedrich Schiller, poet of freedom more books like this

by Friedrich Schiller

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Last essays more books like this

by Thomas Mann

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The Life of Friedrich Schiller more books like this

by Thomas Carlyle

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART III. FROM HIS SETTLEMENT AT JENA TO HIS DEATH. (1790-1805.) The duties ot his new office naturally called upon Schiller to devote himself with double zeal to ...

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Nietzsche and Schiller: Untimely Aesthetics more books like this

by Nicholas Martin

Nietzsche's Die Geburt der Tragodie and Schiller's Asthetische Briefe are two texts which make a vital contribution to the history of aesthetic and cultural theory. This is the first work to make a comparative study of the texts, bringing a mutually illuminating perspective to bear on them. Dr Martin counters the widespread belief that Nietzsche ...

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Schiller's Early Dramas: A Critical History more books like this

by David V Pugh

The interpretation of the works of Friedrich Schiller, with Goethe one of the co-founders of German classicism, has long been a central concern of German critics. In a country known as 'the land of poets and thinkers,' the achievements of great writers have been a matter of national pride and identity. But special problems are raised by Schiller, ...

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In the Theatre of Romanticism: Coleridge, Nationalism, Women more books like this

by Julie A Carlson

English Romanticism has long been considered an 'undramatic' and 'anti-theatrical' age, yet Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats all wrote plays and viewed them as central to England's poetic and political reform. In the Theatre of Romanticism analyses these plays, in the context of London theatre at the time, and argues that Romantic ...

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Schiller, Hegel, and Marx more books like this

by Philip J Kain

Schiller, Hegel and Marx looked back to ancient Greek culture, viewing it as the historical embodiment of certain ideals central to aesthetic theory. This volume investigates their viewpoints and how they use Greek culture as an ideal model for remaking the modern world, for overcoming alienation and estrangement.

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Friedrich Schiller in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten more books like this

by Friedrich Burschell

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Friedrich Schiller more books like this

by Charles E Passage

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Schiller's Literary Prose Works: New Translations and Critical Essays more books like this

by Friedrich Schiller, Jeffrey L High (Editor)

Friedrich Schiller was a dramatist and poet for the ages, an important aesthetic theorist, and among Germany's first historians. But he left few works of literary prose behind - seven short tales and fragments, almost all from early in his career - and although they include some of his most resonant in his own time, they are largely overlooked ...

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Duty and Inclination: The Fundamentals of Morality Discussed and Redefined with Special Regard to Kant and Schiller more books like this

by Hans Reiner

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Theatre Goethe & Schiller more books like this

by John Edgar Prudhoe

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