Afektiivne teater Teater NO99 Friedrich Schilleri moraalse sentimentalismi jalajälgedes
Post-dramatic Theatre in the Footsteps of 18th Century Moral Sentimentalism – The Case of NO99

Summary/Abstract: This paper has multiple aims. First, it elaborates on 18th century moral sentimentalism as exemplified by Friedrich Schiller’s Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man from 1795 (henceforth referred to simply as Letters in this paper). Second, it draws an evolutionary line of continuity and family resemblance from the emphasis in Letters to the emotional sensitivity and sensuous perception of 21st century affect theories. Third, it applies a common theoretical focus on the involuntary and impulsive corporeal reactions of both (i.e. the Letters and the affect theories) in an analysis of post-dramatic theatre performances in order to revise and enrich their somewhat leftist reception with the cluster of notions related to psychosomatic affect theories. Thereby, new augmented pathways are indicated for the reading of the post-dramatic project, Ühtne Eesti Suurkogu, by NO99 theatre from more than a decade ago.

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