Schiller's Aesthetic Essays: Two Centuries of Criticism

by Lesley Sharpe

Overview

Friedrich Schiller, the dramatist and poet, greatly influenced the development of aesthetics through his essays. He sums up the eighteenth century while anticipating modern ideas; his notions of the naive and the sentimental, of art as play, and of beauty as semblance, have had a lasting impact on aesthetic speculation.
Dr Sharpe's book is the first study devoted to tracing the attempts of successive generations of philosophers and literary critics to expound the works and deal with the problems they present. Surveying Anglo-American as well as German-language criticism, she illuminates the impact of critical and political change on their evaluation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781571130587
Publisher:	BOYDELL & BREWER INC
Publication date:	09/28/1995
Series:	Literary Criticism in Perspective , #32
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	15.20(w) x 22.80(h) x (d)

Editorial Reviews

This is a prolegomenon to any future study of the aesthetic writings and an important book for anyone interested in the history of aesthetics. It will take its place alongside the volumes edited by Norbert Oellers as an important contribution to the reception of Schiller's writings.

JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES

[An] indispensable tool for future scholars of Schiller's aesthetic essays.' SOUTH ATLANTIC REVIEW 'The value of the book is not only that it reconstructs a section of the histone but even more that, by illuminating them from so many different angles, it contributes considerably to our understanding of the essays themselves.

YEAR'S WORK IN MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES

"This is a prolegomenon to any future study of the aesthetic writings and an important book for anyone interested in the history of aesthetics. It will take its place alongside the volumes edited by Norbert Oellers as an important contribution to the reception of Schiller's writings."--JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES

"[An] indispensable tool for future scholars of Schiller's aesthetic essays."--SOUTH ATLANTIC REVIEW

"The value of the book is not only that it reconstructs a section of the histone but even more that, by illuminating them from so many different angles, it contributes considerably to our understanding of the essays themselves."--YEAR'S WORK IN MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES

From the Publisher

Sharpe (German, U. of Exeter) traces the attempts of successive generations of philosophers and literary critics to confront the linguistic and systematic problems presented in the aesthetic essays of the dramatist, poet, and essayist poised between Enlightenment traditions and the beginnings of Romanticism. Critical evaluations of Schiller's use of Kant's philosophy feature prominently. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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