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Friedrich Schiller on Aesthetics - Dictionary of Arguments
Gadamer I 87 Aesthetics/Schiller/Gadamer: In his aesthetic writings, Schiller transformed the radical subjectivation by which Kant transcendently justified the judgement of taste and its claim to universal validity from a methodological to a content-related precondition(1). Although he was able to draw on Kant himself in this process, insofar as Kant had already recognized the importance of a transition from the enjoyment of the senses to a sense of morality,(2) but by proclaiming art as an exercise in freedom, Schiller was referring more to Fichte than to Kant. The Gadamer I 88 free play of cognitive faculties, on which Kant had based the a priori of taste and genius, was understood anthropologically from the basis of Fichte's drive theory, in that the play drive is supposed to bring about harmony between the form and material drive. >Taste, >Genius. It probably has to do with the inner shift in the ontological basis of Schiller's aesthetics that his great approach in the "Letters on Aesthetic Education" also changes in the execution. As is well known, an education through art becomes an education to art. In place of the true moral and political freedom for which art should prepare, the formation of an "aesthetic state" of an educational society interested in the arts(3) occurs. But this also forces the overcoming of the Kantian dualism of the world of the senses and the world of morals, represented by the freedom of aesthetic play and the harmony of the work of art, into a new contrast. The reconciliation of ideal and life through art is merely a particular reconciliation. Beauty and art lend only a fleeting and transfiguring glimmer to reality. Gadamer I 89 The concept of reality that Schiller contrasted with poetry is certainly no longer Kantian. For Kant, as we have seen, always starts from the beauty of nature. Cf. >Art/Phenomenology. 1. Thus one can summarize what was said in the letters "Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen", for example in the 15th letter, it is justified: "there should be a community between form drive and material drive, i.e. being a play drive". 2. Kant, Kritik der Urteilskraft p. 164. 3. "Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen", twenty-seventh letter. Cf. still the excellent presentation of this process in H. Kuhn, Die Vollendung der klassischen deutschen Ästhetik durch Hegel, Berlin 1931._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Schiller, Friedrich Gadamer I Hans-Georg Gadamer Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010 Gadamer II H. G. Gadamer The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986 German Edition: Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-17