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Free downloadable pdf. "In “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, Friedrich Schiller develops an art theory asserting that aesthetics can resolve human conflict while empowering the individual. However, it is often unclear as to how Schiller’s proposals are to be practiced and achieved. I claim that Schiller’s theory appropriates alchemical concepts, thereby identifying a cause for his theory’s obtuseness, and clarifying how the processes are to be understood. Schiller’s appropriation of alchemy is evinced through an overview of Schiller’s claims, evidence that alchemical information was available to Schiller, and a demonstration that the features and goals of Schiller’s theory are similar to those of the alchemists’ processes. From there, I support the claim that Schiller employs alchemical concepts by identifying how the underlying structure of his assertions, and his diction, correspond with the alchemists’ preparatio, putrefactio, and hierogamy." http://uncwweb.uncw.edu/csurf/Explorations/documents/AndrewJester.pdf |
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