Aesthetic Reason and Imaginative Freedom

María del Rosario Acosta López is Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. She has published several books, including La tragedia como conjuro: el problema de lo sublime en Friedrich Schiller. Jeffrey L. Powell is Professor of Philosophy at Marshall University and the editor of Heidegger and Language.

"…it is heartening to have here a volume of essays focusing on [Schiller's] philosophical writings and bringing together titans of the fields of philosophical Schiller-studies, German early romantic aesthetics, and German idealism, such as Beiser, Daniel Dahlstrom, and Manfred Frank, together with a younger generation of Schiller scholars. What makes this compilation additionally useful is the fact that its editors have not shied away from providing several essays in translation, thereby opening access to readers for whom they might otherwise be inaccessible." — Journal of the History of Philosophy"The contributors to this invigorating collection make consummate use of the latest offerings in Schiller scholarship and groundbreaking new English translations to argue for a Schiller more deftly attuned to contemporaneous concerns about aesthetic reason, imaginative freedom, and political Romanticism than normally attributed to this late Enlightenment figure … Highly recommended." — CHOICE"As a whole, the volume provides a well-informed treatment of both aesthetical and political conceptions that are to be found in Schiller's work as well as indications of how Schiller's thought at times differs from that of his and our contemporaries, while it could at times also support contemporary philosophical paths." — Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

• IntroductionMaria del Rosario Acosta Lopez and Jeffrey L. Powell Part I: Schiller’s Historico-Philosophical Significance 1. Schiller, Rousseau, and the Aesthetic Education of ManYvonne Nilges2. Schiller on Emotions: Problems of (In)Consistency in His EthicsLaura Anna Macor3. Schiller’s Aesthetics between Kant and SchellingManfred Frank, translated by Christina M. Gschwandtner 4. The Violence of Reason: Schiller and Hegel on the French RevolutionMaria del Rosario Acosta Lopez5. Schiller and PessimismFrederick Beiser Part II: Imagining Schiller Today 6. Naive and Sentimental Character: Schiller’s Poetic PhenomenologyDaniel Dahlstrom7. Schiller and the Aesthetic PromiseJacques Ranciere, translated by Owen Glyn-Williams8. On the Fate of the Aesthetic Education: Ranciere, Posa, and The Police Christoph Menke, translated by Eliza Little9. Kant, Schiller, and Aesthetic TransformationJeffrey L. Powell10. Aesthetic Dispositifs and Sensible Forms of EmancipationMaria Luciana CadahiaFriedrich Schiller’s Works CitedBibliographyContributorsIndex