Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Towards a German Romantic Concept of the Ballad: Goethe's “Johanna Sebus” and Its Musical Interpretations by Zelter and Reichardt
- “Trübe” as the Source of New Color Formation in Goethe's Late Works Entoptische Farben (1817–20) and Chromatik (1822)
- The Myth of Otherness: Goethe on Presence
- The Transformation of the Law of Nations and the Reinvention of the Novella: Legal History and Literary Innovation from Boccaccio's Decameron to Goethe's Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten
- “Hear him! hört ihn!”: Scholarly Lecturing in Berlin and the Popular Style of Karl Philipp Moritz
- Hypochondria, Onanism, and Reading in Goethe's Werther
- Judex! Blasphemy! and Posthumous Conversion: Schiller and (No) Religion
- Esoterik der “Macht, die über uns waltet und alles zum Besten lenkt”: Das Wissen vom Anderen in Goethes Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
- Goethes Fortgepflanztes: Zur Unbegrifflichkeit der Morphologie
- Special Section on Die Entstehung der Neueren deutschen Literaturwissenschaft aus der Goethe-Philologie
- Book Reviews
Judex! Blasphemy! and Posthumous Conversion: Schiller and (No) Religion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Towards a German Romantic Concept of the Ballad: Goethe's “Johanna Sebus” and Its Musical Interpretations by Zelter and Reichardt
- “Trübe” as the Source of New Color Formation in Goethe's Late Works Entoptische Farben (1817–20) and Chromatik (1822)
- The Myth of Otherness: Goethe on Presence
- The Transformation of the Law of Nations and the Reinvention of the Novella: Legal History and Literary Innovation from Boccaccio's Decameron to Goethe's Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten
- “Hear him! hört ihn!”: Scholarly Lecturing in Berlin and the Popular Style of Karl Philipp Moritz
- Hypochondria, Onanism, and Reading in Goethe's Werther
- Judex! Blasphemy! and Posthumous Conversion: Schiller and (No) Religion
- Esoterik der “Macht, die über uns waltet und alles zum Besten lenkt”: Das Wissen vom Anderen in Goethes Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
- Goethes Fortgepflanztes: Zur Unbegrifflichkeit der Morphologie
- Special Section on Die Entstehung der Neueren deutschen Literaturwissenschaft aus der Goethe-Philologie
- Book Reviews
Summary
InGeschichte des Abfalls der vereinigten Niederlande von der Spanischen Regierung (1788), Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) wrote: “Das gemeinschaftliche Ziel des Despotismus und des Priestertums ist Einförmigkeit, und Einförmigkeit ist ein notwendiges Hülfsmittel der menschlichen Armut und Beschränkung.” Like Schiller, many of the foremost canonical thinkers and doers of the Late Enlightenment rose to prominence as political, philosophical, and literary enemies of coerced uniformity—despotism and priestcraft— be it in the form of feudal tyranny, foreign occupation, violation of freedom of political thought and expression; or church-state violation of freedom of, to, and from religion. Revolutions in deed are preceded and accompanied by revolutions in thought, and just as every revolution in thought needs a Locke, a Jefferson, a Rousseau; every revolution in deed needs a William of Orange, a Washington, a Danton. As an enemy of tyranny, the German dramatist, theorist, historian, and poet Schiller belongs in a political-rhetorical class with these thinkers, and, by association, in a class with his own dramatic creations—the doers Karl Moor, Marquis Posa, Joan of Arc, and William Tell. Such liberation heroes, the legendary and the fictional as well as the historical, are fairly destined to become mythologized objects of tribal fetish worship. But what is a tribal-law-abiding idol-worshipper to make of such complicated requisite liberal rebels, once the reformed—and subsequently static-conservative—tribal state has been established, only (hopefully) to plod along through the anti-constitutional trials of relentlessly retarded constitutional progress?
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- Goethe Yearbook 19 , pp. 143 - 164Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2012