Urteil und / als Affekt â Vermessungen frÃ¼hneuzeitlicher Anthropologie im barocken Trauerspiel

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Urteil und / als Affekt â Vermessungen frÃ¼hneuzeitlicher Anthropologie im barocken Trauerspiel

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846769843_008

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The article starts with a simple, but yet overlooked observation concerning German baroque play: If any sovereign (as the all-responsible representative of the divine order) is urged to judge at his court, he always will opt for death sentences, fatally determined by his emotions. Yonder traditional investigations of religious, deconstructive, or social historian frames of reference, it is shown how, as an anthropological impact and a kind of early modern âcounter-discourseâ, Gryphius and Lohenstein demonstrate that man is definitely not capable to rule reasonably; literature so refutes contemporary concepts of âabsolutismâ as misconceiving human nature in a fundamental way. Contrarily, late baroque authors around 1700 / 1720 like Hallmann and GÃ¼nther transform the high-ranking genre tragedy and its âdeathlyâ subject matter into its own travesty by formal means â a promising path German literature unfortunately did not follow.

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Kulturen des Urteilens

Prozesse und Konstellationen der Urteilsbildung in Texten der FrÃ¼hen Neuzeit

Series:Â Poesis, Volume: 15

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Publisher:: Brill | Fink

Print Publication Date:: 06 Nov 2025

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