INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
The neo-Kantian Reception of Schiller
24-26 SEPTEMBER 2025
Department of Humanities, University Federico II of Naples
Via Porta di Massa 1, Room "Cataloghi Lignei"
Streaming: Zoom link
09.00/09.30
Welcome address
09.30/10.15
Schiller versus the post-modernists
Frederick Beiser (Syracuse University, New York)
10.15/11.00
The Beautiful Soul. Schiller’s rupture with Kant
Rudolf Meer (Universität Bochum) and Stefan Klingner (Universität Göttingen)
11.00/11.30. Coffee break
11.30/12.15
Kuno Fischer: Schiller as a bridge between Kritizismus and Romantik
Sabato Danzilli (Uni Catania)
12.15/13.30. Buffet Lunch
13.30/14.15
Materialism, "fictitious truth", aesthetic religion: Friedrich Albert Lange's interpretation of Schiller and its legacy
Paolo Pecere (Uni Roma 3)
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14.15/15.00
Lange’s project for Schillerian Kantianism as philosophy for the industrial revolution
Chiara Russo Krauss (Uni Federico II)
15.00/15.30. Coffee break
15.30/16.15
“Only error is life, and knowledge is death”. Vaihinger’s Schiller as a possibility of idealization
Francesco Pisano (Uni Federico II)
09.00/09.45
“The poet of the ideal”: Hermann Cohen on Schiller on form and sensibility
Scott Edgar (Saint Mary's Uni)
09.45/10.30
Aesthetic education and self-consciousness of humankind. Schiller in Cohen's thought
Ezio Gamba (Uni Torino)
10.30/11.00. Coffee break
11.00/11.45
Actualizing freedom. On Schiller’s relevance for South-West Neo-Kantianism
Christian Krijnen (Vrije Uni Amsterdam)
11.45/12.30
Wilhelm Windelband on Schiller's transcendental idealism as Kulturphilosophie
Gerald Hartung (Uni Wuppertal)
12.30/14.00. Buffet Lunch
14.00/14.45
Tracce schilleriane nella Scuola del Baden
Roberto Redaelli (Uni Milano)
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14.45/15.30
Un “discepolo di Kant”? Strategie e limiti dell’appropriazione badense di Schiller
Giovanni Morrone (Uni Campania)
15.30/16.00. Coffee break
16.00/16.45
L'estetica e l'etica di Schiller in Libertà e forma di Cassirer
Beatrice Centi (Uni Parma)
09.00/09.45
“The realm of shadows”: The presence of Schiller in Cassirer’s philosophy of science
Luigi Laino (Uni Federico II)
09.45/10.30
“Amid the universal ruin, bloom”. Cassirer’s appropriation of Schiller in his philosophy of history
Jacinto Paez Bonifaci (Uni Diego Portales)
10.30/11.00. Coffee break
11.00/11.45
Dilthey, Schiller and the Neo-Kantian foundation of the human sciences
Giuseppe Guastamacchia (Uni Torino)
11.45/12.30
The presence of Schiller in the first period of Natorp’s philosophy
Mattia Papa (Uni Federico II)
12.30/14.00. Buffet Lunch
14.00/14.45
The Neokantians systematic approach to Schiller’s transcendental idealism. Vorländer and Kühnemann
Niklas Sommer (Schiller Uni Jena)
14.45/15.30
L'interpretazione di Jonas Cohn di Schiller come “educatore” kantiano di Goethe
Domenico Spinosa (Uni L'Aquila)
15.30/16.00. Coffee break
16.00/16.45
Schiller in Max Weber? Una questione aperta
Edoardo Massimilla (Uni Federico II)