{"product_id":"aesthetical-essays-of-friedrich-schiller","title":"Ästhetische Essays von Friedrich Schiller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat if freedom depends not just on laws, but on how we learn to feel?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller, a poet and playwright asks why beauty matters beyond pleasure. Responding to Immanuel Kant and the violence of the French Revolution, Schiller argues that laws and force cannot make people free on their own. Art, he proposes, teaches feeling and helps bring reason and desire into balance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man, On Grace and Dignity, On the Sublime, On the Pathetic, and On Naive and Sentimental Poetry. Across these essays, Schiller explores play, duty, suffering, and our bond with nature. His central concern stays close to human life: how can reason and feeling work together rather than pull us apart?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eInside this book\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFreedom begins within\u003c\/strong\u003e – Explore Schiller’s claim that political freedom needs an education of feeling, not laws alone.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe purpose of play\u003c\/strong\u003e – Discover how the play drive brings reason and desire together through beauty.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGrace and moral duty\u003c\/strong\u003e – Follow Schiller’s response to Kant as he considers duty and harmony within.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFacing the overwhelming\u003c\/strong\u003e – Encounter storms, mountains, danger, and suffering in essays that explore the sublime and inner freedom.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoetry and our nature\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet poets who live in harmony with nature and those who long for it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers who love poetry, theatre, or philosophy and want to explore why art matters, especially students of Kant and Romanticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page now and join Schiller in asking what beauty can do for human freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":59534629110108,"sku":"LOA-C2304-PB","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":59908415848796,"sku":"LOA-C2304-HC","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/02304_en_ebook-front_c15.jpg?v=1792174979","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/de\/products\/aesthetische-essays-von-friedrich-schiller","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}