Week Three

Kleist Lecture Two

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HCC FORUM ON FRIDAY APRIL 17^TH11:00am

FINDING A RESEARCH TOPIC

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More incendiary rhetoric: http://abdulazeem.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/windowslivewritergreatfireoflondon-9d83great-fire-london3.jpg

Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811)

Prussian nobility

Searching for his “true calling”

http://www.freilichtspiele-hall.de/bilder/rueckblick/kleist_portrait.jpg

1801 Kleist’s epistemological crisis

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

How do we know what we know?

The character of our perceptual apparatus determines our perception.

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:

http://rinusvanalebeek.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/800px-berlin_kleistgrab.jpg

Chronicle of Hans Kohlhase:

1532: offense: Junker Günther von Zaschwitz takes horses

---à Those are not your horses!

---à Those are not my 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??

Did he act directly?

Did he act alone?

Event: pp.114-118.

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

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Wittenberg-1536.jpg

Direct Action and Occurrences involving Intermediaries

The Jack Bull 1999 HBO Film John Cusack

Wyoming at the time of statehood 1890 [horses]

“Those are not my horses!”