Friedrich Schiller’s aesthetic theory connects the sense drive, form drive, and play drive with human wholeness, aesthetic education, ethical development, and the possibility of freedom.
Gadamer critiques modern aesthetic consciousness by tracing its development through Kant, genius, Erlebnis, symbol, allegory, and aesthetic differentiation, returning art to a distinctive experience of truth.
Friedrich Schiller connects the sensuous drive, form drive, play drive, aesthetic education, freedom, culture, and political formation within a unified theory of human development.
Bildung, taste, judgement, genius, Erlebnis, aesthetic differentiation, artistic truth, and play define Gadamer’s critique of the subjectivisation of the experience of art.
Play, performance, representation, repetition, self-forgetfulness, transformation into structure, total mediation, recognition, and contemporaneity define Gadamer’s ontology of the artwork.
