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
(http://www.freilichtspiele-hall.de/bilder/rueckblick/kleist_portrait.jpg)
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
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
Horses and Herse--and what else?
Event:
pp.114-118.
Consequences: [most of] pp.118-213 [?]
Direct Action and Occurrences involving Intermediaries