title: On the Aesthetic Education of Man in a Series of Letters (English and German Edition)
author: J. C. F. von Schiller
description: <br />"An indispensable aid to any serious study of Schiller...noone who cares about the place of the arts in human life and about their role in modern society can afford to ignore it."--W. Witte, <em>Modern Language Review</em>
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  # Bibliographical Note
  
  
  This Dover edition, first published in 2004, is an unabridged republication of
  On the Aesthetic Education of Man in a Series of Letters, published by Yale
  University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, in 1954. The work was originally
  published in 1795.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  
  Schiller, Friedrich, 1759—1805.
  
  
  [Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen in einer Reihe von Briefen.
  English]
  
  
  On the aesthetic education of man / Friedrich Schiller ; translated with an
  introduction by Reginald Snell.
  
  
  p. cm.
  
  
  Originally published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1954.
  
  
  Includes index.
  
  
  9780486117393
  
  
  1\. Aesthetics, Modern—18th century. I. Snell, Reginald. II. Title.
  
  
  BH183.S25 2004
  
  
  111’.85—dc22
  
  
  2004050046
  
  
    
    
    
    
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