Schiller As Philosopher: A Re-Examination 1st Edition by Frederick Beiser (PDF)

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Fred Beiser, renowned as one of the world’s leading historians of German philosophy, presents a brilliant new study of Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), rehabilitating him as a philosopher worthy of serious attention. Beiser shows, in particular, that Schiller’s engagement with Kant is far more subtle and rewarding than is often portrayed. Promising to be a landmark in the study of German thought, Schiller as Philosopher will be compulsory reading for any philosopher, historian, or literary scholar engaged with the key developments of this fertile period.

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Editorial Reviews: Review This is an important, scholarly attempt to evaluate Schiller as a philosopher. It forges new understandings of his stance on such essential subjects as beauty, aesthetics, and the theory of drama. Beiser (Syracuse Univ.) takes a chronological view, including letters, essays in periodicals, and even the footnotes that accompany essential documents. He includes a strong bibliography and two appendixes, one about rhetoric and philosophy in Schiller’s essays and the other about the neo-Kantian interpretation of Schiller. Accessible to readers without knowledge of German, this study is particularly valuable because it revisits the accepted wisdom about Schillers’ relationship to such significant philosophers as Fichte and Rousseau. [Beiser] calls for greater attention to primary sources as scholars continue to evaluate Schiller’s philosophical contribution to has age and our own. –Choice About the Author Frederick Beiser is at Syracuse University, New York.

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⭐This is by far the most readable and entertaining book on the subject of Schiller’s philosophy out there. I have enjoyed Beiser’s other books, but this stands out in particular because the subject of Kant and Schiller has been the subject of such incredibly dry and boring scholarship–on both sides of the Atlantic– up to now. It isn’t clear that even Beiser has come to a definitive verdict on the relationship of Kant and Schiller (certain chapters seem contradictory) but he has come as close as anyone before him, and none of the scholarship that precedes him is missing from the text. No one can fault Beiser for his research and thoroughness–and yet, he summarizes it in such an entertaining and eloquent way, you are likely to forget you aren’t reading a novel. I recommend this to those aficionados of German literature and philosophy alike–you won’t be disappointed.

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