1791年到1793年,诗人兼美学家席勒,写了15封信,献给资助他的丹麦王子克里斯谦公爵。他极为重视这些信,1794年它们焚于火灾后,又全部重写,篇幅加倍,形成了27封信在内的《美育书简》,它是现代美育的理论基石。信中他揭示出,现代工业化社会孕育出的人们对美育的渴求,“束缚在整体中的一个孤零零的断片上,人也就把自己变成一个断片了”。分工越来越细,人成为生产中的环节,生命失去了完整感,成为后世美学家所说的“单面人”。 From 1791 to 1793, the poet and esthetician Schiller wrote 15 letters to the Duke of Christians, the Danish prince who financed him. He attached great importance to these letters. After they were burned in a fire in 1794, they rewritten and doubled their length to form 27 letters of “Aesthetic Education Book Brief,” which is the theoretical cornerstone of modern aesthetic education. In his letter, he reveals that people in modern-day industrialized society crave for aesthetic education, “and are bound to be a fragment on a solitary piece in the whole.” As the division of labor becomes more and more detailed, people become links in production, and life loses its sense of completeness and becomes the one-sided man said by later aesthetes.