Schiller Oder Die Erfindung Des Deutschen Idealismus by Rüdiger Safranski

Die Erfindung des Deutschen Idealismus

This intellectual biography traces Schiller’s journey from a struggling provincial student to a central figure in late-18th-century German culture, showing how his dramas, aesthetic writings and ideas about freedom and moral education helped shape the emergence of German Idealism; it reads his artistic and political struggles, his friendship with contemporaries, and his shifting views on reason, feeling and autonomy against the broader tensions between Enlightenment thought and Romantic sensibility, arguing that his conception of aesthetic education and moral autonomy was foundational for later German philosophical developments.