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Friedrich Schiller

German poet and philosopher on aesthetic education.

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Friedrich Schiller shows up with force in Chapter III: Aesthetic Theories of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Follows Kant, defining art as a game aiming at beauty without utility.
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In Chapter III: Aesthetic Theories of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Follows Kant, defining art as a game aiming at beauty without utility. Later, in Chapter XVI: His poem attached to Beethoven's Ninth…

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IKImmanuel KantVHVictor HugoJGJean-Marie GuyauCDCharles DickensHSHerbert SpencerFSFriedrich Schiller

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