Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. The special subject of the greater part of the letters and essays of Schiller contained in this volume is Aesthetics; and before passing to any remarks on his treatment of the subject it will be useful to offer a few observations on the nature of this topic, and on its treatment by the philosophical spirit of...

A collection of short stories by F. Schiller: A walk under the lime trees The whims of destiny A good deed Lost honour A remarkable feminine revenge The mind reader The following short stories and novels of Frederick Schiller drag us into the intricacies of human destinies, as the main characters and events of these stories were all gleaned from real life. What is amazing in these novels is his immense compassion for the vagaries and excesses of the human mind. He has written these pieces in such a way that we cannot have a different feeling but that of empathy with the erring human beings....

As an adjective, sublime means a subject that is causing deep emotions and feelings of wonder or joy. The noun sublime describes a subject that is without equal, that is supreme or of great moral, artistic or spiritual value. The verb derived from these words describes the capacity of a subject to reach the highest level without going through intermediary steps. To sublimate also means to direct any energy available to something beneficial. More simply, F. Schiller uses the notion of sublime as a tool available to anyone for overcoming all the inconvenient aspects of the experiences we must...

To present Humanity in its full expression was Schiller's intent in rewriting and adapting, in the form of a novel or a telling according to the spirit of Enlightenment, these legal cases taken from the exhaustive volumes of real life cases compiled by Pitaval. In eight remarkable legal cases which portray the human being in all his erring and excesses, we see the author reinterpreting, in the spirit of a human friendly observer, past legal judgments which call upon the use of newly discovered field such as psychology, as well as new principles which were used to draft laws, in an effort to...

This work treats in detail about the relationship among the central authority (the Emperor), the regent and the various state councils and local parliaments. It is an attempt to analyze the complex power relationships among the ruler, the other executive and legislative offices. It begins with the psychological profile of Philip II, the Emperor, the mind in center of all important decisions. It portrays also the buoyant personality of people like William of Orange and his peers who fought with all diplomacy and duplicity for the sovereignty of their lands. Iconoclasm was the act of resistance...