On the Aesthetic Education of Man: And Letters to Prince Frederick Christian von Augustenburg

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Synopsis
“The artist is certainly the child of his age, but all the worse for him if he is at the same time its pupil, even worse its minion.”

One of the most profound works of German philosophy, Friedrich Schiller’s On the Aesthetic Education of Man examines politics, revolution, and the history of ideas in order argue that art should have a greater role in shaping society. Deeply disillusioned with the course of the French Revolution, Schiller expressed his complaints in a series of letters to a patron, an impassioned attempt to drag mankind upward from failure to greatness by placing ideas of aesthetic education at the heart of the human experience: “Our era has actually taken both wrong turnings, and has fallen prey to coarseness on the one path, lethargy and perversity on the other. Having strayed along both paths, it is beauty that can lead [us] back.”

Copyright:
2016

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
224 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780141396965
Publisher:
Penguin Books, Limited
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
© 2016 Alexander Schmidt
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Philosophy
Submitted By:
170
Proofread By:
170
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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