Dramatic times of Politics

该子项目结合了对戏剧的时间参照美学的问题，在18世纪世纪后半叶的时间性的日益增强的历史和政治制度的分析视角。这一方法主要关注两个方面：历史主义兴起期间的历史时间化和政治的时间结构变化。后者的根源在于从封建国家到行政国家的转变、法律对个人行为的限制、政治交流的媒介实践的变化或在"政治浪漫主义"背景下从政治共融的角度对自然法的批判。分析集中在这些语义，媒体和概念的变化在戏剧表演逻辑和美学的表现。戏剧作为一种媒介，特别适合传达、表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流派历史的形式要求，同时，它也是世纪后半叶戏剧转型的一部分。在这种张力下，戏剧对社会变革的进程作出敏感的反应，并试图通过呈现未来可能的发展来施加影响。戏剧文本的体裁特性决定了它必然会在文本层面上不断产生新的时空秩序，而这些新的时空秩序又在不同程度上偏离或违背了它所处时代的主流时间秩序。此外，单个戏剧作品的特征是在几个时间层面上实现的张力：情节的历史性与文本制作时的情况之间的张力，以及过去的文本制作时刻与戏剧表演的现状之间的张力。事实上，随着新的阅读和表演继续实现历史上的戏剧文本，这些时间的视野是无限扩展到未来。在!因此，这个子项目的目的是分析1770年至1850年之间的文学戏剧文本如何通过在体裁的预定义的时间结构内处理政治行动和事件来舞台和反映政治领域中变化的节奏和时间结构。在此背景下，出现了一些研究问题，这些问题将沿着一系列文本及其当代表演实践和各自的背景进行审查。其目的是推导出戏剧性的政治时间性及其基本的理论含义以及其物质实现的变化。这将由两名项目主管和两名博士完成。学生

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.