Schiller's Aesthetic Essays: Two Centuries of Criticism

by Lesley Sharpe

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571130586
• ISBN13: 9781571130587
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.4"