Schiller's on Grace and Dignity in Its Cultural Context: Essays and a New Translation by Curran, Jane V.

Schiller's on Grace and Dignity in Its Cultural Context: Essays and a New Translation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781571133052)

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Schiller's on Grace and Dignity in Its Cultural Context: Essays and a New Translation by Curran, Jane V.

Schiller's on Grace and Dignity in Its Cultural Context: Essays and a New Translation

$105.00
Schiller's on Grace and Dignity in Its Cultural Context: Essays and a New Translation by Curran, Jane V.

Schiller's on Grace and Dignity in Its Cultural Context: Essays and a New Translation

$105.00
Format: Hardcover
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The first English scholarly edition of Schiller's pivotal essay, accompanied by the first comprehensive commentary on it.

Friedrich Schiller is not only one of the leading poets and dramatists of German Classicism but also an inspiring philosopher. His essay "ﾜber Anmut und W?de" (On Grace and Dignity) marks a radical break with Enlightenment thinking and its morally prescriptive agenda. Here Schiller does not pursue the prevalent interest in the individual artist as genius or in the creative act; instead, he establishes a harmony of mind and body in the aesthetic realm, putting down his thoughts on aesthetics in a systematic way for the first time, building on his own earlier forays into the field and on an intensive study of Kant. The popular essay form allowed Schiller to combine condensed thoughtwith clear and rhetorically effective presentation, but his innovation here is his insistence on a freedom for art that affirms the moral freedom of reason, reuniting the human faculties radically separated by Enlightenment thought. Schiller sees aesthetic autonomy as the way forward for civilization. This is the first English scholarly edition of this pivotal essay, accompanied by the first comprehensive commentary on it. The essays focus on various facets of Schiller's essay and its socio-historical and philosophical context. Schiller's analysis is examined in the light of the thematic context of his plays as well as its surviving influence into the twentieth century.

Contributors: Jane Curran, Christophe Fricker, David Pugh, Fritz Heuer, Alan Menhennet.

Jane V. Curran is Professor of German at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Christophe Fricker is a D. Phil. candidate at St. John's College, Oxford.

Author: Jane V. Curran
ISBN-10: 1571133054
ISBN-13: 9781571133052
Publisher: Camden House (NY)
Language: English
Published: 06/20/2005
Pages: 239
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.16w x 0.84d

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