A poética do sublime na teoria da tragédia de Friedrich Schiller

Abstract

In his brief philosophical career, the German poet and playwright Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) appropriated the Kantian concept of the sublime and he indentified it to the tragedy and to the concept of tragic. Tragedy would be genuinely regulated by those kind of aesthetic principles. Thus, this study sought to relate the subjective character of the experience of the sublime with his practical implications for the architecture of the tragedy, especially those concerning the ideal dramatic structure. If, on a road, Schiller's thought walks toward the development of a conception of the concept of tragic from concepts of modern Aesthetics, for another it remains tied to the Aristotelian tradition when it focuses on the study of tragedy as a literary genre. So, Schiller builds a sublime's poetics, an art program that opens an important debate about the tragic phenomenon in German philosophy. But, as we intend to uphold, the concept of tragic forged from a moral interpretation of the sublime becomes problematic Schiller's theory of tragedy. Although, this theory has relevant questions: Why we like tragic issues?