Aesthetic reason and imaginative freedom : Friedrich Schiller and philosophy / edited by María del Rosario Acosta López and Jeffrey L. Powell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Acosta López, María del Rosario, editor.

Powell, Jeffrey, 1954- editor.

Series:

SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schiller, Friedrich, 1759-1805.

Schiller, Friedrich.

Physical Description:

vi, 217 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York, [2018]

Summary:

Shows the relevance of Schiller's thought for contemporary philosophy, particularly aesthetics, ethics, and politics. This book seeks to draw attention to Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) as a philosophical thinker in his own right. For too long, his philosophical contribution has been neglected in favor of his much-deserved reputation as a political playwright. The essays in this collection make two arguments. First, Schiller presents a robust philosophical program that can be favorably compared to those of his age, including Rousseau, Kant, Schelling, and Hegel, and he proves to be their equal in his thinking on morality, aesthetics, and politics. Second, Schiller can also guide us in our more contemporary philosophical concerns and approaches, such as phenomenology, hermeneutics, aesthetics, and politics. Here, Schiller instructs us in our engagement with figures such as Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, Jacques Rancière, Roberto Esposito, and others. María del Rosario Acosta López is Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. She has published several books, including La tragedia como conjuro: el problema de lo sublime en Friedrich Schiller. Jeffrey L. Powell is Professor of Philosophy at Marshall University and the editor of Heidegger and Language .

Contents:

Introduction / María del Rosario Acosta López and Jeffrey L. Powell

Part I : Schiller's historico-philosophical significance. Schiller, Rousseau, and the aesthetic education of man / Yvonne Nilges

Schiller on emotions : problems of (in) consistency in his ethics / Laura Anna Macor

Schiller's asesthetics between Kant and Schelling / Manfred Frank, translated by Christina M. Gschwandtner and Jeffrey L. Powell

The violence of reason : Schiller and Hegel on the French Revolution / María del Rosario Acosta López

Schiller and pessimism / Frederick Beiser

Part II : Imagining Schiller today. Naïve and sentimental character : Schiller's poetic phenomenology / Daniel Dahlstrom

Schiller and the aesthetic promise / Jacques Rancière, translated by Owen Glyn-Williams

On the fate of the aesthetic education : Rancière, Posa, and The Police / Christoph Menke, translated by Eliza Little

9. Kant, Schiller, and aesthetic transformation / Jeffrey L. Powell

10. Aesthetic dispositifs and sensible forms of emancipation / Maria Luciana Cadahia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-205) and index.

ISBN:

9781438472195

1438472196

OCLC:

1031407752