Who Is This Schiller Now?

[D]emands attention not least for the great variety of approaches chosen by its well-qualified contributors, all of whom share the common aim of liberating Schiller from his traditional role as the junior member of the Weimar partnership. . . . [T]he bulk of the constituent material gives us a Schiller still vibrantly alive -- now, and in the foreseeable future. --Osman Durrani, * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *
[A]n indispensable introduction to Schiller scholarship: it presents historicized research covering a broad range of Schiller's legacy, is extensively resourced, and demonstrates considerable self-reflexivity regarding international Germanistik. * GOETHE YEARBOOK *
[A] rich, varied, and rewarding volume of scholarship. . . . [B]oth specialists and more casual readers of Schiller's works, and indeed those readers with an interest in the history of ideas, stand to benefit from a sustained reading of the learned meditations contained within it. * FOCUS ON GERMAN STUDIES *
[T]he premise of the book's conception [is] fully to be accepted, and finds realization in a number of important contributions that broaden and deepen our knowledge about Schiller's illusionless realism, his understanding of politics, his philosophical position, his critique of religion, and his skeptical treatment of historical experience in his poetic and theoretical works. * GERMANISTIK *
Divided into five parts covering drama and poetry, aesthetics and philosophy, history and politics, reception and 'Schiller Now', the essays reveal Schiller as a dramatist of melancholy, a 'poet of Mourning', and an Enlightenment historian, to mention just three of the wide variety of perspectives offered . . . [a] useful contemporary collection. Recommended. * CHOICE *
[P]ositions itself - rightly - over and against the mid-century creation of a politically naïve, if not dangerous, Schiller, who cartoonishly embodied the backlash within Anglo-American circles against German politics and German idealism. . . . [T]his collection is a conscious effort not only to avoid reducing Schiller to any of his readily identifiable personae, but also to interrogate the twentieth-century scholarly trends that have made this reduction something that must be avoided. * GERMAN QUARTERLY *