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Ep. 321: August Schlegel on Beauty (Part Two)
We continue on Theory of Art, getting more into sections of the text about the relationship between beauty and purposiveness, genius, unconscious vs.…
3 years, 3 months ago
Ep. 321: August Schlegel on Beauty (Part One)
Covering the elder Schlegel brother's Theory of Art (ca. 1800). How does our experience of Beauty relate to the infinite? Schlegel provides a Romant…
3 years, 3 months ago
PREMIUM-Ep. 320: Friedrich Schlegel on Romanticism (Part Three)
Mark and Wes conclude our discussion of the younger Schlegel brother by going through more of his critical fragments, largely published in 1797 in th…
3 years, 3 months ago
Ep. 320: Friedrich Schlegel on Romanticism (Part Two)
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 …
3 years, 3 months ago
Ep. 320: Friedrich Schlegel on Romanticism (Part One)
On selected fragments from 1797-1801, "Dialogue on Poesy" (1799), and "Concerning the Essence of Critique" (1804).
What makes art "Romantic"? Schlege…
3 years, 3 months ago
PREMIUM-Ep. 319: Schiller on Experiencing Beauty (Part Three)
We complete our treatment of On the Aesthetic Education of Man by considering its final letters in more detail.
Does Reason really make us more moral…
3 years, 3 months ago
Ep. 319: Schiller on Experiencing Beauty (Part Two)
Starting with letter 20 in On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795), we tell more of the story of how art is supposed to get us from sensation to thi…
3 years, 4 months ago
Ep. 319: Schiller on Experiencing Beauty (Part One)
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 g…
3 years, 4 months ago
PREMIUM-Ep. 318: Friedrich Schiller on the Civilizing Potential of Art (Part Three)
Mark and Wes dive deeper into the text of the first several letters of On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795).
Are verbal descriptions of art desti…
3 years, 4 months ago
Ep. 318: Friedrich Schiller on the Civilizing Potential of Art (Part Two)
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 …
3 years, 4 months ago