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We continue on Schlegel's "Dialogue on Poesy" (1799) and "Concerning the Essence of Critique" (1804).
How can Romantic art always aim at some common source of our humanity yet also require originality? How can having some sort of common mythology help artists be original in this way, and how can we embrace mythology as modern people?
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The post Ep. 320: Friedrich Schlegel on Romanticism (Part Two) first appeared on The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast.On selected fragments from 1797-1801, "Dialogue on Poesy" (1799), and "Concerning the Essence of Critique" (1804).
What makes art "Romantic"? Schlegel sees good art as uniquely, authentically reaching out to a divine source that underlies and connects each of us.
The post Ep. 320: Friedrich Schlegel on Romanticism (Part One) first appeared on The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast.On the second half of Friedrich Schiller's On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795), getting into the mechanics of how aesthetic experience work in giving us a midpoint between animality and pure rationality where we can feel free. Also, does art reveal truth?
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The post Ep. 319: Schiller on Experiencing Beauty (Part One) first appeared on The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast.We continue working through letters 1-15 of On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795), helped by Markus Reuter.
We get clearer on what Schiller means by Beauty, and how two contrary drives toward matter and form somehow cancel each other out to combine in a "play drive" that is at the heart of appreciating and creating art.
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The post Ep. 318: Friedrich Schiller on the Civilizing Potential of Art (Part Two) first appeared on The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast.Can art make us better people? Musician Markus Reuter joins Mark, Wes, and Seth to discussion the first half of On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795).
Given the failure of the French Revolution, this famous German poet wondered what could make the masses capable of governing themselves? His answer: Beauty! Aesthetic appreciation puts us at a distance from our savage desires, enables the abstract thought necessary for Kantian rationalist morality, and yet keeps us in touch with our feelings so that we don't just become cogs in the industrial machine.
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The post Ep. 318: Friedrich Schiller on the Civilizing Potential of Art (Part One) first appeared on The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast.
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