Schiller Revisited: "Beauty is Freedom in Appearance" - Aesthetics as a Challenge to the Modern Way of Thinking

This essay re-evaluates Schiller's idea of beauty as “freedom in appearance,” as brought forward in his Kallias or On Beauty (1793), against the backdrop of early modern and modern thinking that based itself on a fundamental split between nature and freedom, world and man. Schiller's claim...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Contemporary aesthetics 2014-01, Vol.12
1. Verfasser:	Wolfgang Welsch
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	beauty Critique of Judgment dualism ethics of respect freedom Goethe Hegel Kallias or on Beauty Kant Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man modernity nature objectivity Schiller self-organization
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Zusammenfassung:	This essay re-evaluates Schiller's idea of beauty as “freedom in appearance,” as brought forward in his Kallias or On Beauty (1793), against the backdrop of early modern and modern thinking that based itself on a fundamental split between nature and freedom, world and man. Schiller's claim that natural beauty results from freedom in nature bridges this gap. His suggestion is confirmed by modern science. Schiller's view is recommended and defended as a way of escaping modern bigotry.
ISSN:	1932-8478 1932-8478