Journal of Jishou University(Social Sciences) ›› 2005, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (3): 15-21.

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Schiller’s Original Creative Contributions to Aesthetics——To Commemorate the 200th Anniversary of Schiller’s Passing-away

  

  1. (College of Chinese Language and Literature,Central China University,Wuhan Hubei 430079,China)
  • Online:2005-07-15 Published:2012-08-06

Abstract: Schiller has passed away for 200 years.We commemorate him not only because he is a great poet and dramatist but also because he is a great aesthetician.His contributions to aesthetics are all-round.He is the founder of Western tragedy theory and also the founder of realism and romanticism.He contributes a lot to the theory of sublime and tragedy.Still he is regarded as the exploiter of Western aesthetic anthropology and the advancer of Western system of comprehensive aesthetic categories.So we should fully evaluate Schiller’s great contribution to aesthetics and attach great importance to it.

Key words: Schiller, aesthetics, original creative contributions

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