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I examine a recent interpretation of Friedrich Schiller’s Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man (1795) by Samantha Matherne and Nick Riggle in their two-part paper “Schiller on Freedom and Aesthetic Value” (2020/2021). At the beginning, I give an overview of Riggle’s own theory on aesthetic value. His “aesthetic communitarianism” consists in cultivation of individuality, promotion of aesthetic freedom, and generation of aesthetic community. Then I argue that Matherne and Riggle understand Schiller’s concept of beauty as a version of aesthetic communitarianism avant la lettre. Finally, I insist against Matherne and Riggle that Schiller’s theory of aesthetic value presupposes universal normativity of taste rather than appreciation of individuality.
