Schiller's Aesthetics of Humanity

Friedrich Schiller was the youngest representative of the Weimar Classicism and one of the last great figures of the German Enlightenment. His work, interrupted by his untimely death and shape by the hardships of his life, ranges from medicine to historiography and aesthetics to poetry, but its cornerstone and foundation lies in philosophical reflection. Schiller, not only as an author of theoretical writings but especially as a dramatic poet, proclaimed Enlightenment ideals and developed their systematic anchoring in dialogue with the older rationalism and the emerging idealism and romanticism. Building on the author's works on Herder and Goethe, the present book seeks to provide a synthesis of Schiller's thoughts across all areas of his work and to fill the palpable gap in Czech knowledge of modern German culture by showing the links between philosophy, literature, and social development.