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The controversy between Schiller and Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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Abstract
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| The controversy between Schiller and Fichte is usually confined to the so-called Horen-Dispute (Horenstreit): this is the epistolary polemic in the summer of 1795 between both thinkers initiated by Schiller’s rejection for publication in his recently founded and short-lived journal Die Horen (1795–1797) of Fichte’s article “Concerning the Spirit and the Letter in Philosophy in a Series of Letters”.1 Accordingly, this controversy is reduced to the thematic axes of the Horen-Dispute: the theory of drives and the causal interaction Wechselwirkung) between concepts and images as the style appropriate for an exposition of philosophical ideas for a broad public. Nevertheless, the Horen-Dispute represents the tip of the iceberg in the phil- osophical disagreement between Schiller and Fichte. In the second part of the fragment of a draft for his last letter concerning the rejection of publication, Schiller explained to Fichte that their real divergence concerns neither style nor their conceptions of the aesthetical drive. The real problem behind all their arguments is that they have two totally different and irreconcilable ways of thinking and feeling (GA III/2: 366). The issue in their correspondence is thus a symptom of a more fundamental difference. The controversy between Schiller and Fichte after Kant and after the French Revolution is sooner a con- frontation between two ways of resolving the Kantian antinomy between free- dom and necessity. As such, it represents one of the foundational moments of so-called German idealism. |
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Language
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English
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Source (book)
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The Palgrave handbook on the philosophy of Friedrich Schiller / Falduto, Antonio [edit.]; et al. [edit.]
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Publication
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023
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ISBN
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978-3-031-16797-3
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DOI
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10.1007/978-3-031-16798-0_28
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Volume/pages
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13 p.
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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