Abstract
This lecture returns to the debates in Germany during the 1790s about the processes of social change. Schiller's On the Aesthetic Education of Man addressed key problems of the age: the increasingly alienated work routines necessitated by the division of labour, and the related question of how individuals damaged by these work routines could constructively contribute to social betterment and avoid the violent turmoil that soshocked Schiller as he followed political developments in France.
Speaker
Prof. Benjamin Morgan, Worcester College, University of Oxford.
Benjamin Morgan is Professor of German and Comparative Literature and Chair of the German Department at the University of Oxford, specialising in German intellectual history. He has published widely on key issues and figures on Meister Eckhart in the fourteenth Century, to contemporary German philosophers such as Christoph Menke and Rahel Jaeggi.
Time
March 22, 2026 (Sunday) 15:00
Lecture Venue
Room 302, ShanghaiTech Library
Registration Link and Q&R Code
https://wenjuan.shanghaitech.edu.cn/vm/mCPmoRU.aspx
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