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
(http://members.home.nl/j.backer/steps/glasses/forest_jacb.jpg
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”
(http://www.luckymojo.com/archangel-michael.jpg
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
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
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
(http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/dres/dre035.jpg
http://www.uni-jena.de/img/unijena_/einrichtungen/aaa/grafik/hannytalk.gif
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