Naslov
The Paradox of Sovereignty in Modern German History Plays

Autori
Zelić, Tomislav

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Ocjenski radovi, doktorska disertacija

Fakultet
Odjel za germanstiku

Mjesto
New York, NY, SAD

Datum
10.12

Godina
2008

Stranica
303

Mentor
Müller, Harro

Neposredni voditelj
Huyssen, Andreas

Ključne riječi
paradoks; suverenost; književnost; drama; povijest; politika; filozofija
(paradox; sovereignty; literature; drama; history; politics; philosophy)

Sažetak
This dissertation is the first attempt to read key history plays in the tradition of modern German literature with regards to the paradox of sovereignty. The paradox of sovereignty is that political entities break the law in order to protect the legal order in critical situations. This dissertation explores how history plays expose rulers whose symbolically political performances make the inevitable paradoxes of sovereignty invisible. It analyzes the theatrical and poetic character of verbal and nonverbal performative acts as represented in modern German history plays from the French Revolution to German Reunification. The question is how logical, legal, political, and ethical paradoxes arise from individual or collective claims to absolute sovereignty in different historical situations and constellations and what aesthetic procedures history plays use in order to criticize or affirm the historical and political discourse of absolute sovereignty that conceals underlying paradoxes.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Politologija, Filozofija, Filologija

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