Object's details: Freedom above the Law: Friedrich Schiller’s Die Räuber

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Freedom above the Law: Friedrich Schiller’s Die Räuber
Creator:
Bodas Fernández, Lucía
Contributor:
Kazik, Joanna;
Mirowska, Paulina;
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Department of Philosophy;
Lucía Bodas Fernández is a Doctor in Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. Her doctoral dissertation, “The Relevance of Friedrich Schiller,” focused on the currency of Schiller’s political and aesthetic thought, analyzing its influence on the works of Herbert Marcuse and Jacques Rancière. Bodas Fernández’s main interests lie in the area of aesthetics and art theory, but mostly in connection to political, educative and social matters. She is working along Professor Miguel Cereceda on a book on the political potential of art. Her research topics include political outcomes of aesthetic theory and practice, critical theory and the theory of radical democracy.
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The aim of this paper is to analyze one of the most problematic works of the German poet and philosopher, Friedrich Schiller: his first play, Die Räuber (The Robbers, 1782). Following Hammer and Hart’s Gadamerian literary hermeneutics, I will focus on the subversive role that Schiller attaches to the figure of the criminal in this work. Written seven years before the French Revolution, the play has traditionally been interpreted as a pre-revolutionary drama that stresses the emancipatory power of the Enlightenment and the Revolution. The way in which Schiller appears to use the dichotomy between criminal and society supports this view: the noble criminal opposes the Law as the incarnation of a severe and narrow rationalism. However, the shared tragic end of the Moor brothers, the protagonists of the play, proves the enlightened emancipation to be fallible and reveals its inner despotic potential. This is not due to the final retrograde meaning or because the play is not intimately concerned with freedom and individual autonomy. Instead, its ultimate aim is not to be propagandistic, or even constructive, but harshly critical, uncovering and bearing witness to the oppressive character of Schiller’s contemporary society and its public (penal system) and private (family) institutions. Subverting the traditional association between criminal-evil/compliant-good and virtuerecompense/vice-punishment, Schiller breaks up with the retributive logic on which he does not rely, as if it were a kind of unrecognized superstition that undermines autonomous thinking and action. Through this reversal, Schiller exposes the irrational bases of the retributive urge rooted in Christian humanism, which is not founded upon true justice but upon vengeance and the heteronomy of transcendent concepts that cannot support an autonomous moral.;
Udostępnienie publikacji Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego finansowane w ramach projektu „Doskonałość naukowa kluczem do doskonałości kształcenia”. Projekt realizowany jest ze środków Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego w ramach Programu Operacyjnego Wiedza Edukacja Rozwój; nr umowy: POWER.03.05.00-00-Z092/17-00.
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free access
Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 ;
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Międzynarodowe
Date:
2019.06.10;
2013
Type:
Book chapter
Language:
English
Format:
application/pdf;
image/jpeg
Publisher:
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Relation:
Kazik J., Mirowska P. (red.), Studies in English Drama and Poetry vol. 3. Reading subversion and transgression, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2013;;
Studies in English Drama and Poetry;;
3
Subject:
Freedom above the Law;
Friedrich Schiller;
Die Räuber
Identifier:
Bodas Fernández L., Freedom above the Law: Friedrich Schiller’s Die Räuber, [w:] Studies in English Drama and Poetry vol. 3. Reading subversion and transgression, Kazik J., Mirowska P. (red.), Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2013, s. 45-54, doi: 10.18778/7525-994-0.04;
978-83-7525-994-0;
http://hdl.handle.net/11089/28808 ;
10.18778/7525-994-0.04
Data provider:
Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

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