
Dialectic of Love
Platonism in Schiller's Aesthetics
David Pugh(Author)
McGill-Queen's University Press
Will be published approx. on 5. March 1997
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Hardback
456 pages
978-0-7735-1020-3 (ISBN)
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Dialectic of Love analyses the arguments of Schiller's major writings on aesthetics and argues that his philosophical thought, theories, and concepts are characteristic of the Platonic tradition. Schiller's conception of beauty is seen as synthesis, the sublime as separation. Pugh connects these concepts to Aristotle's critique of Plato's theory of ideas, in which Aristotle points out an aporia of chorismos (separation) and methexis (participation). In Schiller's thought, Pugh argues, beauty and the sublime operate primarily as metaphysical relations of methexis and chorismos and only secondarily as aesthetic concepts. While Schiller, Pugh reveals, is not very well suited for the role of champion of the Enlightenment, he remains a crucial figure in the transmission of the Platonic tradition to modern idealism and in the application of the Platonic metaphysical heritage to nineteenth-century aesthetics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Montreal
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Weight
822 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7735-1020-3 (9780773510203)
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