Week Three

Kleist lecture Three

 

Check the maps.

 

 

Mediation: [dispute resolution]

----but here: coming between; making less direct

 

vs. im-mediate (relations; contact; access; knowledge)

 

--just as green glasses “mediate” our perception of objects, so do intermediaries intervene in the direct and exact administration of law

 

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Bureaucracy and fragmented authority as a species of violence:

 

 

 

 

Consequences for direct action?  For Doing? 

 

Antigone buries Polynices    subject-verb-object

 

What does the Junker do?

 

What does Kohlhaas do?

 

 

 

Bureaucracy= Government by many bureaus, administrators, and petty officials

(Random House online dictionary)

 

 

Sovereigns:  Wenzel von Tronka; the Elector of Saxony

 

 

state privilege” was conferred on Tronka by his sovereign, the Elector of Saxony. 

 

Is there a bureaucratic truth?

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Luther counter-argues Kohlhaas’s incendiary rhetoric:

 

MK: pillages, burns, plunders, kills and posts writs.   148

 

 

an emissary of the Archangel Michael [an intermediary] who has come to punish with fire and sword all those who shall stand on the Junker’s side in this quarrel and to chastise in them the deceitfulness that now engulfs the whole world”

 

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Read 149 and 150  Luther’s letter

 

Elector is innocent before God [in the letter] but on 153 Luther allows that the Elector may have to answer to God for appointing poor servants.

 

An obvious thesis:  this tale, written during the first years of France’s revolutionary government suggests [contrary to Luther’s opinion] that when the state fails to protect its citizens, those citizens may usurp the state and seek justice on their own. 

 

How would you argue this??

 

 

Role of Public Opinion as a replacement for inaccessible Truth

 

The Public resists Kunz   166ff.

 

 

The Fairy Tale

 

Elector of Saxony==an Ueber-Wenzel von Tronka

 

The locket

 

“You can send me to the scaffold, but I can make you suffer and I mean to do so” (195)

 

The final act of vengeance: 213

 

for the sequel we refer our readers to history”

 

Johann Friedrich I,  Moritz,  and Charles V

 

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1547 Battle of Mühlberg