Bildung : the relation between the self and culture in Schiller, Hegel and Nietzsche
I begin this thesis by introducing some of the key words which are relevant to the development of the concept of Bildung, or self-cultivation, in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Germany. In the second chapter Schiller is grouped with his contemporaries - Humboldt, Herder, and Goethe - as a 'Weimar Humanist'. I attempt to show how the 'Weimar Humanists' developed a contradictory but definite intellectual concept of self-cultivation, which sought to forge some relation between the moral and the aesthetic in the development of the individual. I proceed, in the third chapter, to examine Friedrich Schlegel's radical or romantic conception of self-cultivation: what I typify as the extension of one of the tendencies inherent in, but eventually antagonistic to Schiller's aesthetic education. In the same chapter I introduce the terms which are essential to understanding Hegel's approach to self-cultivation, and account for their relevance to both his historical dialectics and his exposition of the development of self-consciousness in the Phenomenology. The fourth chapter focusses upon an exposition of self-development in the Phenomenology itself, and attempts to characterise Hegel's mature theory of the
Amos, Michael Judson
Philosophy
Bildung : the relation between the self and culture in Schiller, Hegel and Nietzsche. I begin this thesis by introducing some of the key words which are relevant to the development of the concept of Bildung, or self-cultivation, in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Germany. In the second chapter Schiller is grouped with his contemporaries - Humboldt, Herder, and Goethe - as a 'Weimar Humanist'. I attempt to show how the 'Weimar Humanists' developed a contradictory but definite intellectual concept of self-cultivation, which sought to forge some relation between the moral and the aesthetic in the development of the individual. I proceed, in the third chapter, to examine Friedrich Schlegel's radical or romantic conception of self-cultivation: what I typify as the extension of one of the tendencies inherent in, but eventually antagonistic to Schiller's aesthetic education. In the same chapter I introduce the terms which are essential to understanding Hegel's approach to self-cultivation, and account for their relevance to both his historical dialectics and his exposition of the development of self-consciousness in the Phenomenology. The fourth chapter focusses upon an exposition of self-development in the Phenomenology itself, and attempts to characterise Hegel's mature theory of the
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