| Nostalgic Teleology: - Friedrich Schiller and the Schemata of Aesthetic Humanism: Friedrich Schiller and the Schemata of Aesthetic Humanism Contributor(s): University of Stanford (Editor), Behler, Constantin (Author) |
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ISBN: 3906755223 ISBN-13: 9783906755229 Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P OUR PRICE: $85.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - German - Literary Criticism | European - German - Philosophy |
| Dewey: 831.6 |
| LCCN: 95036517 |
| Series: Stanford German Studies |
| Physical Information: 260 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This study develops a novel interpretation of Schiller's classical aesthetic humanism - -the fountainhead of all later German critical theory- (Wellek) - as a program of normative discipline in Foucault's sense of the term. Schiller's aesthetics establishes and puts to work a number of metaphysical schemata, such as the three-stage figure of origin and return, in order to render its subjects as programmable and as subject to a knowledge that could be strategically deployed to shape and transform them. Nostalgic teleology, the promise of a recovery of nature, wholeness, and community serves to hide the violence of this project of aesthetic education. At its center stands the formation of -the Other Sex-, which is analyzed as the truly classical elaboration of a modern -regime of truth.-" |