Schiller's on Grace and Dignity in Its Cultural Context

Essays and a New Translation
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-1-57113-305-2
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 239 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

The first English scholarly edition of Schiller's pivotal essay, accompanied by the first comprehensive commentary on it.

Friedrich Schiller is not only one of the leading poets and dramatists of German Classicism but also an inspiring philosopher. His essay "Über Anmut und Würde" (On Grace and Dignity) marks a radical break with Enlightenment thinking and its morally prescriptive agenda. Here Schiller does not pursue the prevalent interest in the individual artist as genius or in the creative act; instead, he establishes a harmony of mind and body in the aesthetic realm, putting down his thoughts on aesthetics in a systematic way for the first time, building on his own earlier forays into the field and on an intensive study of Kant. The popular essay form allowed Schiller to combine condensed thoughtwith clear and rhetorically effective presentation, but his innovation here is his insistence on a freedom for art that affirms the moral freedom of reason, reuniting the human faculties radically separated by Enlightenment thought. Schiller sees aesthetic autonomy as the way forward for civilization. This is the first English scholarly edition of this pivotal essay, accompanied by the first comprehensive commentary on it. The essays focus on various facets of Schiller's essay and its socio-historical and philosophical context. Schiller's analysis is examined in the light of the thematic context of his plays as well as its surviving influence into the twentieth century.

Contributors: Jane Curran, Christophe Fricker, David Pugh, Fritz Heuer, Alan Menhennet.

Jane V. Curran is Professor of German at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Christophe Fricker is a D. Phil. candidate at St. John's College, Oxford.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Curran, Jane V

Fricker, Christophe

Weitere Mitwirkende

Fricker, Christophe

Menhennet, D

Pugh, David V.

Heuer, Fritz

Curran, Jane V.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Übersetzung, Editionstechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Editionen, Kritische Editionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Jane V. Curran and Christophe Fricker
Schiller's Essay "Über Anmut und Würde" as Rhetorical Philosophy - Jane V. Curran
Schiller as Citizen of His Time - David V. Pugh
Sensuous-Objective: Beauty in the Realm of Human Freedom. On the Language of Concepts in Schiller's Essay "On Grace and Dignity" - Fritz Heuer
From Romantic Dream to Idyllic Tragedy: Idealism and Realism in Schiller's Dramas, Before and After Kant - Mr. D. Menhennet
The Poet as Herald of the Appearance of Grace and Dignity: The Influence of Schiller's Twin Concepts on Stefan George - Christophe Fricker
Translation of On Grace and Dignity by Friedrich Schiller - Jane V. Curran

Über Autor(innen)

Jane V. Curran is Professor of German at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Christophe Fricker is a D. Phil. Candidate at St. John's College, Oxford.