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Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
SFNL I/II
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
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Registration group: SFNL I/II
Priority scheme: Priorisierung SFNL I/II
Allocation scheme: Kontingentierung SFNL I/II
Requirements / organisational issues:
How do we represent political and social forms of community? Which narrative, dramatic, rhetoric or figurative strategies are being used by literary texts to make abstracts concepts like community and society graspable? How do literary texts conceptualize the relations between the parts of a community and its whole? The seminar will discuss these questions by focusing on literary texts from the time around 1800, as for example by Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich von Kleist and Friedrich Hölderlin. Furthermore, theoretical concepts like Thomas Hobbes‘ Leviathan and Jean-Jacques Rousseaus volonté générale will be discussed. Thus, traditions in the representation of society as a body or as a container can be critically engaged with.
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