The Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Friedrich Schiller

by Antonino Falduto (Editor), Tim Mehigan (Editor)

Overview

Friedrich Schiller is justly celebrated for his dramas and poetry. Yet, above all, he was a polymath, whose writings enriched a range of fields including history and philosophy. Until now, no comprehensive accounting of this philosophy has been undertaken. The Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Friedrich Schiller makes good this desideratum, treating Schiller's poetry, prose, and dramatic work alongside his philosophical writings and reviewing his thought not only in connection with those who influenced him, such as Kant, Reinhold, and Fichte, but also those he anticipated, such as Hegel, Marx, and the Neo-Kantians. Topics treated in this volume include Schiller's philosophical background, his theoretical writings, Schiller's philosophical writing in light of his entire oeuvre, and Schiller's philosophical legacy. The Handbook also includes an overview of the main topics Schiller addressed in his philosophical writings including philosophical anthropology, aesthetics, moral philosophy, politics and political theory, the philosophy of history, and the philosophy of education. Bringing together the latest research on Schiller and his thought by leading scholars in the field, the Handbook draws attention to Schiller's undiminished importance for philosophical debates today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031168000
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	12/30/2022
Edition description:	1st ed. 2023
Pages:	663
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Antonino Falduto is Lecturer (tenured Associate Professor) in Philosophy at the University of Ferrara, Italy. He is the author and editor of numerous works on the philosophy of Enlightenment (including The Faculties of the Human Mind and the Case of Moral Feeling in Kant’s Philosophy, Berlin/Boston 2014).

Tim Mehigan is Professor of German in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland, Australia, and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. He is the author of Heinrich von Kleist: Writing after Kant (2011), Robert Musil and the Question of Science (2020) and co-translator of K.L. Reinhold's New Theory of the Human Capacity for Representation (2011).

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I Biographical and Historical Background

1. J. Chr. Fr. Schiller: A Life as Mensch of Letters

2. Schiller and His Philosophical Context: Pleasure, Form and Freedom

3. The Development of Schiller’s Philosophical Attitude: Schiller’s Philosophical Education

PART II Schiller’s Theoretical Writings

4. Writings from Schiller’s time at the Karlsschule in Stuttgart (1773-1780)

5. What Effect Can a Good Permanent Theatre Actually Achieve? (1785)

6. Philosophical Letters (1786)

7. On the Cause of the Pleasure We Derive from Tragic Objects (1792)

8. On the Art of Tragedy (1792)

9. Kallias, or Concerning Beauty (1793)

10. On Grace and Dignity (1793)

11. Concerning the Sublime (1793) / On the Pathetic (1801)

12. Detached Reflections on Different Questions of Aesthetics (1793)

13. Letters on the Aesthetic Education (1795)

14. Concerning the Necessary Limits in the Use of Beautiful Forms (1795)

15. On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry (1795/96)

16. On the Sublime (1801)

PART III Schiller’s Philosophical Topics

17. Schiller and Philosophical Anthropology

18. Schiller’s Aesthetics: Beauty is Freedom

19. Schiller on Morals

20. Schiller on Politics and Political Theory

21. Schiller’s Philosophy of History

22. “Upward to Freedom”: Schiller on the Nature and Goals of Aesthetic Education

PART IV The Relevance of Schiller’s Philosophical Thought in the Context of His Entire Work

23. The Role of Philosophy in Schiller’s Plays

24. The Role of Philosophy in Schiller’s Poetry

25. The Role of Philosophy in Schiller’s Prose

26. Schiller and Kant on Grace and Beauty

27. Karl Leonhard Reinhold’s Influence on Schiller’s Reception of Kant

28. The Controversy between Schiller and Johann Gottlieb Fichte

29. Schiller on the Aesthetics of Morals and 20th century Kant Scholarship and Philosophy

30. Schiller and the Birth of German Idealism

31. Schiller and Early German Romantics (Kleist, Hölderlin, Goethe)

32. The Neo-Kantians and Schiller’s Transcendental Idealism

33. Schiller’s Horen, Humboldt’s Rhodian Genius, and the Development of Physiological Ideas in Mythical Form

34. Friedrich Schiller and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

35. Schiller and Marx on Alienation

36. Schiller and Critical Theory