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The Perfection of Freedom - Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel Between the Ancients and the Moderns (Paperback)
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The Perfection of Freedom - Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel Between the Ancients and the Moderns (Paperback)
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Synopsis: The Perfection of Freedom seeks to respond to the
impoverished conventional notion of freedom through a recovery of
an understanding rich with possibilities yet all but forgotten in
contemporary thought. This understanding, developed in different
but complementary ways in the German thinkers Schiller, Schelling,
and Hegel, connects freedom, not exclusively with power and
possibility, but rather most fundamentally with completion,
wholeness, and actuality. What is unique here is specifically the
interpretation of freedom in terms of form, whether it be aesthetic
form (Schiller), organic form (Schelling), or social form (Hegel).
Although this book presents serious criticisms of the three
philosophers, it shows that they open up new avenues for reflection
on the notion of freedom; avenues that promise to overcome many of
the dichotomies that continue to haunt contemporary thought--for
example, between freedom and order, freedom and nature, and self
and other. The Perfection of Freedom offers not only a
significantly new interpretation of Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel,
it also proposes a modernity more organically rooted in the ancient
and classical Christian worlds. Endorsements: "David Schindler has
written a profound book on freedom. Through his penetrating
analysis of Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel, he offers us nothing
less than an alternative to the modern notion of freedom as freedom
of choice . . . The Perfection of Freedom wears its erudition
lightly in a compelling display of philosophical thinking and
re-visioning that will take us beyond modernity by going through
it." --Cyril O'Regan, University of Notre Dame "This is a work
marked by impressive erudition and steady, lucid thoughtfulness
about the nature of freedom as perfection . . . Schindler looks to
some of the great thinkers of classical German philosophy:
Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel in particular. The result is a very
engaging and illuminating defense of a richer notion of freedom.
The scholarship is impressively informed on the historical side,
matched on the systematic side with sustained insight into the
issues at stake." --William Desmond, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Author Biography: D. C. Schindler is Associate Professor of
Philosophy in the Department of Humanities at Villanova University.
He is the author of Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Dramatic
Structure of Truth (2004) and Plato's Critique of Impure Reason
(2008).
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