Kleist and the Resurrection of the Father

Abstract

After sketching some of the historical and theoretical developments in the eighteenth-century crisis of fatherhood, "Kleist and the Resurrection of the Father" reads three Kleist novellas, The Marquise of O . . ., The Earthquake of Chili, and The Foundling, as companion pieces that expose the radically destabilized nature of paternity at the close of the eighteenth century. Arguing that Kleist's fathers are caught in the tension of bios and nomos, the essay demonstrates how documents and bodies undermine each others' claims to establish paternity. Precisely because all attempts to ground fatherhood biologically, metaphysically, ethically, or politically fail on some level, none of them can emerge as dominant, and all of them survive their own delegitimization. In consequence, Kleistian fatherhood exists in a strange realm of Ungleichzeitigkeit, the state of non-synchronicity Ernst Bloch defined as the simultaneous existence of historically distinct ideologies within a shared but non-identical "now."

On revenge

“…The elector is actually starved of knowledge by Kohlhaas as an act of revenge, and Kohlhaas himself is satisfied by consuming the capsule. Weineck (2003) maintains that von Kleist's literary work expresses an 'intense engagement with the question of (patriarchal) law' (p. 70) and involves a 'systematic project to undermine all forms of fatherhood' (pp. 83-84).…”

O processo motivacional para o Triathlon em jovens de 13 e 14 anos.

“…Wall e Cotê (2007) relatam que há um decréscimo significativo para prática de atividades físicas e desportivas na faixa etária da adolescência. Sobre isso, Sack (1982) apud Weineck (2003) já demonstravam esta queda, na qual a atividade física passa ser praticada como meio de interação social com seus pares e não mais como algo que possui um significado pessoal (motivação intrínseca), gerando, portanto, a queda na participação esportiva.…”