Dramatic times of Politics

该子项目将戏剧的时间参考美学问题与18世纪下半叶新兴的暂时性历史和政治制度的分析观点结合起来。这一研究方法主要关注两个方面：历史主义兴起时期历史的时间化和政治的时间结构的变化。后者根植于从封建国家到行政国家的转变，法律对个人代理的约束，政治沟通的医疗实践的变化，或者从“政治浪漫主义”背景下政治共同体的视角对自然法的批判。本文着重分析了这些语义、媒介和概念的转变在戏剧表演逻辑和美学中的表现。戏剧作为一种媒介，特别适合于传达、呈现和反思这些认识论和诗学的变化。戏剧需要符合根植于该类型历史的形式要求，同时也是18世纪下半叶戏剧转型的一部分。在这种紧张气氛中，戏剧对社会变化的进程作出敏感反应，并试图通过呈现未来可能的发展来影响社会变化。戏剧文本根据其体裁的特殊性，必然不断地在文本层面上产生新的时空秩序，这些秩序在不同程度上偏离和矛盾于它们所写作的时代的主导时间秩序。此外，个人戏剧作品的特点是在几个时间层面上实现的紧张：情节的历史性与文本生产时刻的情境之间的紧张，以及过去的文本生产时刻与戏剧表演的当前情境之间的紧张。事实上，随着新的阅读和表演继续实现历史上的戏剧文本，这些时间的视野可以无限地扩展到未来。在！在更大的审美时间性背景下，该子项目旨在分析1770年至1850年间的文学戏剧文本如何在政治领域中发挥作用，并通过在该类型预先确定的时间结构中处理当时的政治行动和事件，来反映变化的节奏和时间结构。在此背景下，出现了一些研究问题，这些问题将通过选择文本及其当代表演实践和各自的背景进行检查。我们的目标是推断政治的戏剧性暂时性及其基本理论含义，以及它们的物质实现的变化。这将由两名项目主管和两名博士生完成。

The subproject combines questions on time-referenced aesthetics of drama with analytical perspectives on the ernerging historical and political regimes of temporality in the second half of the 18th century. Two aspects are of major interest to this approach: The temporalization of history during the rise of Historicism and changing temporal configurations of the political. The latter are rooted in the transformation from a feudal to an administrative state, constraints on individual agency imposed by the law, changing medial practices of political communication or a critique of Natural law as voiced from the perspective of a Iangue duree of the political comhlunity in the context of 'political Romanticism'. The analysis concentrates on the manifestations of these semantic, medial and conceptual shifts in the performative logic and aesthetics of drama. ln its function as a medium, drama is particularly suited to convey, produce presentations of and reflect on these epistemological and poetological changes. Drama needs to conform to formal requirements rooted in the genre's history while at the same time, it is part of theater's transformation in the second half of the 18th century. Within this tension drama reacts sensitively to processes of social change and tries to wield influence on them by presenting possible future developments. According to their genre-specific nature, dramatic texts thus necessarily and continuously generate new temporal and spatial orders on the textual Ievei that, to different extents, deviate from and contradict the dominant temporal order of the time when they were written. Moreover, the individual dramatic work is characterized by tensions that materialize on several temporal Ieveis: tensions between the historicity of the plot and the situation at the moment of textual production, as weil as between the bygone instant of textual production and the present situation of theatrical performance. lndeed, as new readings and performances continue to actualize dramatic texts in history, these temporal horizons are infinitely expandable into the future. ln the !arger context of aesthetic temporalities, this subproject hence aims to analyze how literary dramatic texts between 1770 and 1850 function to stage and reflect on changed rhythms and temporal structures in the political realm by addressing political actions and incidents of their time within the genre's predefined temporal structures. Against this backdrop, a number of research questions arise, which shall be examined along a selection of texts and their contemporary performance practices and respective contexts. The objective is to deduce dramatic temporalities of the political and their fundamental theoretical implications as weil as variations of their material actualization. This will be accomplished by the two project supervisors and two Ph.D. students.