ABSTRACT:
Written in the late eighteenth century, in the work Letters upon the aesthetic education of man, Schiller goes beyond the discussion of art by identifying the urgent need for aesthetic education as a cure for the ills brought by modernity. In this article, we seek to reconstruct the formative conception that supports the discussion present in the Letters, seeking to demonstrate the relevance of its educational premises. For that, we studied the historical conceptions that influenced the writing of the Letters, as well as the central concepts that base their conception of aesthetic education. We also analyzed the role of aesthetic education as a counterpoint to fragmentation and in questioning the place of sensitivity in training. With such a study, we hope to highlight the importance of Schillerian aesthetic education in the current context by recovering critical and emancipatory aspects of art as human formation and projection of an expanded rationality.
Keywords:
Aesthetic education; Formation; Schiller