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Literary Form and International World Order in Goethe: From Iphigenie to Pandora
Ist Teil von
Goethe yearbook, 2018, Vol.25 (1), p.183-201
Ort / Verlag
Rochester: North American Goethe Society
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
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Quelle
Literature Online (LION)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
[...]in Pandora, a masque or festival play (Festspiel) first published in the midst of Napoleonic Wars in 1808, Goethe moves beyond international law itself and discovers the root cause for the inability of international law to provide for a normative world order-the institution of the modern state. [...]Pandora problematizes the very relationship between world order and literary form. In this context, Vattel mentions the ancient legend about the custom of sacrificing foreigners to Diana in Scythia: A sovereign may not allow the right of entrance into his territory granted to foreigners to prove detrimental to them; in receiving them he agrees to protect them as his own subjects and to see that they enjoy, as far as depends on him, perfect security. [...]we see that every sovereign who has granted asylum to a foreigner considers himself no less offended by injuries which may be done to the foreigner than if they were done to his own subjects. [...]it envisages an international world in which two types of legal subject co-exist: the sovereign person and the individual person.