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Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 337 pages

This collection of essays and letters by Friedrich Schiller centres on aesthetics, the philosophy of beauty and art. Schiller explores the nature of artistic beauty, the relation between mind and aesthetic experience, and the place of aesthetics in human culture. Listeners interested in classical German thought on art will find these pieces thoughtful and rewarding.

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AESTHETICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL
ESSAYS
by Frederick Schiller
INTRODUCTION.
The special subject of the greater part of the letters
and essays of Schiller contained in this volume is
Aesthetics; and before passing to any remarks on his
treatment of the subject it will be useful to offer a few
observations on the nature of this topic, and on its
treatment by the philosophical spirit of different ages.
First, then, aesthetics has for its object the vast
realm of the beautiful, and it may be most adequately
defined as the philosophy of art or of the fine arts. To
some the definition may seem arbitrary, as excluding the
beautiful in nature; but it will cease to appear so if it
is remarked that the beauty which is the work of art is

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Contents

  1. AESTHETICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS
  2. INTRODUCTION.
  3. Part of the nineteenth century seems to take in hand the task of
  4. VOCABULARY OF TERMINOLOGY.
  5. LETTERS ON THE AESTHETICAL EDUCATION OF MAN.
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