Week Three

 

Kleist Lecture Two

 

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HCC FORUM ON FRIDAY APRIL 18TH 11:00am

FINDING A RESEARCH TOPIC

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1801   Kleist’s epistemological crisis

 

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Letter to Wilhelmine von Zenge   22 March  1801

 

If all people had green glasses for eyes, they would have to judge that the objects they see through them ARE green and they would never be able to determine whether their eyes showed them the things as they are or whether they added some property which does not belong to the thing, but to the eye.

 

And so it is with understanding. We cannot determine whether that which we call truth really is truth, or whether it only appears to me….My only, my greatest goal has disappeared and now I have nothing left.

 

1811  Kleist’s suicide

 

Kleist’s grave:

 

 

Chronicle of Hans Kohlhase: 

 

1532: offense:   Nobleman confiscates horses

1534: Kohlhase stops petitioning, begins crime spree

1540: Broken on the wheel

 

 

In the beginning was the Deed:  Deed implies Agent

What did the Junker do??

 

 

The Jack Bull   1999 HBO Film    John Cusack

Wyoming at the time of statehood   1890   [horses]

 

 

Horses and Herse--and what else?

 

Event:  pp.114-118.

Consequences: [most of] pp.118-213 [?]

 

 

Direct Action and Occurrences involving Intermediaries