TRAGEDY AND RHETORIC OF ENTHUSIASM IN HÖLDERLIN’S EMPEDOKLES

Authors

  • Martín Rodríguez Baigorria Universidad de Buenos Aires

Keywords:

Hölderlin, enthusiasm, Empedokles, tragedy, revolution

Abstract

The rhetoric of enthusiasm is a recurring subject in Friedrich Hölderlin’s work. His dramatic project Der Tod des Empedokles(1797-1801), clearly dramatizes the excesses associated to this rhetoric, both from an individual and collective point of view. Its most dreadful connotations were associated with discussions about the consequences of enthusiasm as moral experience in the context of protestantism and enlightenment of the time. As a result of this conflicting moral statute, the language of enthusiasm will become the constitutive center for the competing versions on the tragic conflict of its main character. In this article we will focus on the two first drafts of the work to analyze the way in which the rhetoric of enthusiasm originates the crisis in the city of Agrigento.

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Rodríguez Baigorria, M. (2014). TRAGEDY AND RHETORIC OF ENTHUSIASM IN HÖLDERLIN’S EMPEDOKLES. 452ºF. Revista De Teoría De La Literatura Y Literatura Comparada, (10), 183–199. Retrieved from https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/452f/article/view/10924

Issue

No. 10 (2014): Theatre and Dictatorship in the 20th Century

Section

Miscellaneous

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