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Schiller… ‘when confronted by excellence, there is no freedom but in love.’
Schiller’s suggestions and criticisms. Wilhelm Meister – just a happy stroke
of fate?
Chapter Seven
Die Horen. Great ambitions. Two kinds of apolitical politics. Goethe’s social
education and Schiller’s aesthetic education. Schiller infuriates Fichte. How
much style does philosophy need? Die Horen in crisis. The Roman Elegies
as sheet anchor. Quarrel with the Schlegels. The end of Die Horen.
Chapter Eight
Goethe in Jena. Pictures of a friendship. Charlotte and Christiane. Taking
leave of a disorderly love life. Schiller and Christiane by moonlight. Men in
conversation on the commanding heights of literature. The Xenia. Schiller,
Egmont and cruelty. 1797 - The summer of ballads.
Chapter Nine
Hermann and Dorothea. Goethe plans his third Italian journey. Schiller
wants to hold him back. Hölderlin between the two masters. Goethe’s auto-
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