COLERIDGE, SCHILLER, AND AESTHETIC EDUCATION, by Michael John Kooy. New York: Palgrave, 2002, 241 pp.


Who reads Friedrich Schiller today? With the Aesthetic Education of Man struggling to remain in print in the English- speaking world (at least in the UK, from where I am writing this) it would seem fewer and fewer readers are prepared to engage with (or be educated by) this once influential aestheticization of the world; and as for Marcuse on Schiller, or the young(er) Frederic Jameson on Schiller and Marcuse, they, too, seem to be speaking from another era, an ancient time when the humanist utopian promise could still be taken seriously.