Summary
Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Friedrich Schiller: Correspondence
The deep and intimate connection of highly developed aesthetic theories with deep penetration into the finest details of artistic practice is what is unique in this correspondence. In their theoretical-practical collaboration, Goethe and Schiller not only mutually criticize their works that are created or have been created, but at the same time they try to penetrate to the last principles of artistic shaping, to the last principles of specificity and separation of literary genres. But precisely the high philosophical culture that forms the intellectual basis of these aspirations of Goethe and Schiller necessarily requires a historical and critical elaboration of this legacy of theirs. Because their philosophical culture is a culture of idealistic dialectic in the classical work of Germany, with its greatness in formulating significant new problems, but at the same time, inseparable from that: with its idealistic distortion, with its idealistic turning of these problems on their head.
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