« La vie contre la vie ». Le jeune Hegel, lecteur du Wallenstein

Abstract

To what extent is possible be reconciled with a tragic past ? Could historical narration or dramatic performance help to get over the traumatic event indeed ? Or just do they ascertain its constitutive contradictions, the split and the rift from a pain impossible to sublimate ? Is the mourning experience based on the recovery of a feeble balance between the opposite drives, emotions and feelings from the will ? Or does it on the synthetic assimilation of that opposition into another way of life ? This essay travels hand in hand with Schiller and Hegel across the space opened by those questions. It starts from the dissatisfaction generated in the young Hegel by his reading of Schiller’s Wallenstein and it analyzes his different conceptions of the ethic pathos, as well as his uneven perspective about the Attic tragedy.