Aesthetician

🇩🇪Friedrich Schiller

Literature

Sturm und Drang

1895–1990

"What one refuses in a minuteNo eternity will return."

🇫🇷Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Philosophy

structuralism

1908–1961

"It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one “to have his passion as a profession."

🇺🇸John Dewey

Philosophy

1859–1952

"Art expresses, it does not state; it is concerned with existences in their perceived qualities, not with conceptions symbolized in terms."

🇺🇸Theodor Adorno

Philosophy

Enlightenment

1903–1969

"Traditional philosophy’s claim to totality, culminating in the thesis that the real is rational, is indistinguishable from apologetics."

John Ruskin

Art

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

1819–1900

"Punishment is the last and least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime."

🇫🇷Frank Popper

Education

1918–2020

"Roy Ascott was among the first artists to launch an appeal for total spectator participation: for him, the strict antinomy between action and contemplation needed to be abolished."

Eduard Hanslick

Philosophy

1825–1904

"a language which we speak and understand but cannot translate"

🇺🇸Stanley Cavell

Philosophy

1926–2018

"I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word."