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1. J. Chr. Fr. Schiller: A Life as Mensch of Letters -- 2. Schiller and His Philosophical Context: Pleasure, Form and Freedom -- 3. The Development of Schiller's Philosophical Attitude: Schiller's Philosophical Education -- 4. Writings from Schiller's time at the Karlsschule in Stuttgart (1773-1780) -- 5. What Effect Can a Good Permanent Theatre Actually Achieve? (1785) -- 6. Philosophical Letters (1786) -- 7. On the Cause of the Pleasure We Derive from Tragic Objects (1792) -- 8. On the Art of Tragedy (1792) -- 9. Kallias, or Concerning Beauty (1793) -- 10. On Grace and Dignity (1793) -- 11. Concerning the Sublime (1793) / On the Pathetic (1801) -- 12. Detached Reflections on Different Questions of Aesthetics (1793) -- 13. Letters on the Aesthetic Education (1795) -- 14. Concerning the Necessary Limits in the Use of Beautiful Forms (1795) -- 15. On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry (1795/96) -- 16. On the Sublime (1801) -- 17. Schiller and Philosophical Anthropology -- 18. Schiller's Aesthetics: Beauty is Freedom -- 19. Schiller on Morals -- 20. Schiller on Politics and Political Theory -- 21. Schiller's Philosophy of History -- 22. "Upward to Freedom": Schiller on the Nature and Goals of Aesthetic Education -- 23. The Role of Philosophy in Schiller's Plays -- 24. The Role of Philosophy in Schiller's Poetry -- 25. The Role of Philosophy in Schiller's Prose -- 26. Schiller and Kant on Grace and Beauty -- 27. Karl Leonhard Reinhold's Influence on Schiller's Reception of Kant -- 28. The Controversy between Schiller and Johann Gottlieb Fichte -- 29. Schiller on the Aesthetics of Morals and 20th century Kant Scholarship and Philosophy -- 30. Schiller and the Birth of German Idealism -- 31. Schiller and Early German Romantics (Kleist, Hölderlin, Goethe) -- 32. The Neo-Kantians and Schiller's Transcendental Idealism -- 33. Schiller's Horen, Humboldt's Rhodian Genius, and the Development of Physiological Ideas in Mythical Form -- 34. Friedrich Schiller and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -- 35. Schiller and Marx on Alienation -- 36. Schiller and Critical Theory.

That the Enlightenment was a movement reaching across at least three European countries (France, Germany and Britain) in the eighteenth century, with a similar platform in all three (social improvement on the basis of unassisted reason), is the current orthodoxy. Yet this view can only be accepted with qualifications. It is the intention of this essay to focus attention on these qualifications. A first objection lies with the fact that no platform of Enlightenment was articulated in any country in the eighteenth century apart from Germany. In the debate about Enlightenment initiated in the Berlinische Monatsschrift in 1783, Kant's insistence that Aufklärung must stay within political limits is considered characteristic not only of the German discussion, but indeed of all broadly Enlightenment thought from the beginning. In considering Koselleck's argument about the Enlightenment, which analysed this same conservatism, a second objection is apparent: the impulse to stay within the confines of the absolutist state suggests that eighteenth-century Enlightenment, politically speaking, was decidedly other than that which has subsequently been found within it.