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(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 naive, 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 (In pursuing the question, "Who is this Schiller now?") the book not only brings to light once again the inexhaustible multifacettedness of Schiller's work, but also a wealth of important insights. Some of these arise already out of the constellations through and by which individual contributions relate to and approach each other. MONATSHEFTE (A) rich, varied, and rewarding volume of scholarship. . . . (B)oth specialists and m
