Schiller's autograph writing and his thought between 1792 and 1794 : (an approximation)

Abstract

This article attempts to study the thought of Friedrich Schiller between 1792 and 1794 through his autograph writing. For this we have used the author's handwritten texts digitized by the Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv in Weimar. Examining the deletions, corrections and additions of the writing, we try to approximate the author's thought during the mentioned period. This is a watershed moment in Schiller's evolution. Kantian concepts are already well established in it, as demonstrated by the determination of his writing on practical and aesthetic philosophy. However, writing about literary genres, more subject to correction, reveals a process of change. We interpret these differences in writing as Schiller´s attempt to make a compendium of the influence that Kant's philosophy had on him and the beginning of a fruitful intellectual relationship with Goethe.