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| The '''Schiller Institute''' was founded at a conference in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1984, and a second conference in Washington, D.C., USA in 1985, by ], along with her husband, the American politician and philosopher ], ] activist ], and many others. The Institute seeks to apply the ideas of poet, dramatist and philosopher ] to the contemporary world crisis, emphasizing in particular Schiller's concept of the interdependence of ] artistic beauty, and ] political freedom, as elaborated in his series of essays entitled ''Letters on the Aesthetical Education of Man.'' | The '''Schiller Institute''' was founded at a conference in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1984, and a second conference in Washington, D.C., USA in 1985, by ], along with her husband, the American politician and philosopher ], ] activist ], and many others. The Institute seeks to apply the ideas of poet, dramatist and philosopher ] to the contemporary world crisis, emphasizing in particular Schiller's concept of the interdependence of ] artistic beauty, and ] political freedom, as elaborated in his series of essays entitled ''Letters on the Aesthetical Education of Man.'' | ||
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The Schiller Institute was founded at a conference in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1984, and a second conference in Washington, D.C., USA in 1985, by Helga Zepp LaRouche, along with her husband, the American politician and philosopher Lyndon LaRouche, American Civil Rights Movement activist Amelia Boynton Robinson, and many others. The Institute seeks to apply the ideas of poet, dramatist and philosopher Friedrich Schiller to the contemporary world crisis, emphasizing in particular Schiller's concept of the interdependence of classical artistic beauty, and republican political freedom, as elaborated in his series of essays entitled Letters on the Aesthetical Education of Man.
Among the activities of the Schiller Institute, there are:
- A movement to restore the highest standards and conceptions of performance in classical music, drama, poetry and the plastic arts; to end the false dichotomy between the "arts" and the "sciences"; to re-emphasize the moral content in classical art; and to restore classical art to its rightful place in the center of contemporary culture, in opposition to the counterculture.
- A global movement for social and political justice, emphasizing the right of the Third World nations to full economic, political and cultural development, in opposition to the contemporary forms of colonialism. This has included the campaign to realize Lyndon LaRouche's proposals for vast infrastructure projects, such as the Eurasian Land-Bridge.