Konsequenzen der Schillerschen kategorie des erhabenen in Friedrich Durrenmatts komodie Der Meteor
Consequences of Schiller s Category of the sublime in Friedrich Durrenmatt s comedy Der Meteor

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines the implications of Friedrich Schiller s category of the sublime in Friedrich Durrenmatt s drama Der Meteor by construing the drama s underlyng narrative as an immediate derivate of Schiller s aesthetics. The Swiss author s main concepts and techniques, such as the central idea, probability, worst possible turn, odds and outcome, are being considered in their sophisticated entanglement with the German philosopher s take on the notion of free will and the power of judgment. In this context, Durrenmatt s play around the gravity metaphor is being read as a dramatic actualization of Schiller s appropriation

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