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030352 SE Tragedy in Law, Tragedy of Law (2020W)

for diploma and doctoral students

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 3 - Rechtswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work

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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Friday 16.10. 13:00 - 15:00 Hörsaal U15 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Thursday 21.01. 09:00 - 18:00 Hörsaal U15 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1
  • Friday 22.01. 09:00 - 18:00 Hörsaal U15 Schottenbastei 10-16, Juridicum, KG1

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Tragic, according to G.W.F. Hegel, is not a conflict between good and evil, but the ""necessary" conflict of "necessary"". Truly tragic is only the undecidable conflict, i.e. a contradiction that cannot be resolved to one side or the other. In classical tragedy, one of these conflicting sides is regularly the law as a symbol of the unfolding Attic democracy, which confronts the mythical world of the gods. This is the side of law in tragedy, which we will approach in a reading of Antigone, The Bacchaeans and King Oedipus.

In contrast, the side of tragedy in or of law shifts the tragic conflict into law itself: Law emanates from the necessary conflict between the individual and the general, between the individual and society, between subjective freedom and morality, and is therefore genuinely tragic. We will work on this side in particular by reading isolated passages of Hegelian Phänomenologie des Geistes and Christoph Menke's Tragödie im Sittlichen.

The subject of the seminar is thus a theory of law that can be understood as a tragic genealogy of freedom, from which freedom does not emerge as an original characteristic of the human being, but as the result of a process of experience.

Assessment and permitted materials

Oral presentation on a topic of the seminar, seminar paper of roughly 12-15 pages, unless you decide to prepare a „Diplomseminararbeit“. The much more demanding requirements for the Diplomseminararbeit will be set out on the Moodle page.

class participation

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Compulsory attendance at all dates , Oral presentation on a topic of the seminar, seminar paper of roughly 12-15 pages, unless you decide to prepare a „Diplomseminararbeit“. However, a "Diplomseminararbeit" can only be written after submission of a letter of motivation and consultation with Prof. Somek.

Examination topics

entspricht dem gewählten Thema

Reading list

To be announced in the course of the first meeting.

Association in the course directory

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