Liberals and leftists are not wrong in describing romanticism as reactionary, because it did indeed become that after 1810. The problem is that they make that description true of the movement as a whole, as if romanticism were essentially reactionary. — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
You only have to talk to artists to see that they work according to rules, and that they know all too well that they… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
The years 1781 to 1793 are crucial for many reasons, but chiefly because they pose in an especially clear way the main problem of… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
There is a sinister anachronistic interpretation of the aesthetic state as some kind of totalitarian regime that puts aesthetic over moral standards; one associates… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
The connection between romantic politics and aesthetics is plain in Schiller's and Novalis's concept of the aesthetic or poetic state. — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
No one nowadays talks about the absolute, not even people with firm and deep religious convictions. The whole Hegelian project has no resonance for… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
Schiller is an important philosopher because he shows just how integral the idea of beauty is in normal life. — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us. — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
The absolute as the idea is neither subjective nor objective; it is the intellectual structure under which they are subsumed. — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
There was no Prussian bastion to stop the Scotsman's swift conquest of the territory once claimed by reason. — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
Schiller never wanted to replace the moral with the aesthetic but he did want the moral to be one part of the aesthetic. He… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
Royce is the father of the thesis that German idealism is a story about the discovery and development of the Kantian transcendental ego -… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy. — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
