play drive (Spieltrieb)

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The play drive (Spieltrieb) is Friedrich Schiller’s aesthetic concept of a human impulse that harmonizes our rational and sensory natures through free, creative play, enabling genuine freedom and the appreciation of beauty.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf aesthetic concept
anthropological concept
concept in aesthetics
philosophical concept
aimsTo harmonize rational and sensory natures
mediate between reason and sense
associatedWithMovement German idealism
surface form: German Idealism

Weimar Classicism
belongsToTradition Enlightenment aesthetics
classical German philosophy
centralTo Schiller’s theory of aesthetic education
characterizedAs free from external purposes
non-instrumental activity
concerns formation of character through aesthetic experience
relation between beauty and freedom
creator Friedrich Schiller
developedIn Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen
surface form: Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man
enables aesthetic experience
appreciation of beauty
genuine human freedom
goal formation of moral and political freedom through aesthetics
realization of the fully human being
hasDomain aesthetics
philosophical anthropology
philosophy of art
hasFunction reconcile necessity and freedom in the subject
unify rational law and sensuous inclination
hasGermanName Spieltrieb
hasKeyTextualSource Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen
surface form: Letter 14 of On the Aesthetic Education of Man
influenced Romantic aesthetics
later theories of aesthetic autonomy
influencedBy Immanuel Kant’s aesthetics
interpretedAs synthesis of sensibility and reason
languageOfOrigin German
mediatesBetween form drive (Formtrieb)
sense drive (Stofftrieb)
operatesThrough creative play
free play
partOfWork Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen
surface form: On the Aesthetic Education of Man
presupposes capacity for imagination
capacity for self-determination
publicationCentury 18th century
relatedConcept form drive (Formtrieb)
sense drive (Stofftrieb)
usedInDebatesOn autonomy of art
play theory in culture and education

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Friedrich Schiller notableIdea play drive (Spieltrieb)