The Problematization of the Relationship Between Kant and Schiller. Reflections on Laura Anna Macor's "Renewing the Philosophical Canon. Schiller Before, After and Beyond Kant"

Within philosophical hermeneutics, it is not easy to find a work that addresses the thought of the poet, playwright and philosopher Friedrich Schiller with the respect of Laura Anna Macor's. If her work stands out within what Valerio Rocco has called an authentic historiographic revolution, it is because is one of the few approaches to the Schillerian work that makes a deliberate effort to take its philosophical relevance seriously, independently of Schiller's adhesion to Kant's transcendental philosophy. Opposite to analysis as the one of Frederick Beiser, one that on the other hand deserves a great recognition for its meticulous study and defense of Schillerian philosophy, Macor dives in the young Schiller's medical, poetical and dramatic production, finding there genuinely philosophical content, with the intent not only of stating the intimate coherence of his thought, but also his philosophical quality before, after and beyond Kant. The most interesting part of her approach is that, opposite to most of Schiller's readers, Macor does not address the hybrid character of Schiller's thought in a condescending way, but assuming it as a source of multidisciplinary richness that does not hierarchically organize the knowledges. A richness that, on top of that, is a clear sign of the actual relevance of Schiller's thought.