ABSTRACT

This paper adds to efforts to retrieve the long-neglected philosophical contributions of Karoline von Günderrode (1780–1806), and is one of the first to seriously address the political commitments in Günderrode’s work, especially regarding revolution. This idea gains an unusual status in the context of Günderrode’s metaphysics, and is key to understanding the connections between Günderrode’s more obviously philosophical writings and her literary work. I argue that Günderrode’s concept of revolution resembles, in some respects, the ideas of other thinkers of her time, but has ramifications for conceiving of human individuals and their relationships to society and nature that are unique to Günderrode. First, I use a comparison with the work of contemporaries on revolution to justify interpreting Günderrode’s metaphysics in relation to her thought on politics. Günderrode often masks her political thought in the form of plays, and the paper next considers the theme of revolution in her plays Muhammad, the Prophet of Mecca, and Udohla. Lastly, the paper contrasts Günderrode’s position on revolution to claims by Herder and Fichte, arguing that Günderrode’s conception of a cycle of enhancement and decay of natural forces, political power and social cohesion differs from androcentric models that emphasize the development of consciousness.

摘要

本文增加了检索 Karoline von Günderrode（1780-1806 年）长期被忽视的哲学贡献的努力，并且是最早认真解决 Günderrode 工作中的政治承诺的论文之一，尤其是关于革命。这个想法在君德罗德的形而上学语境中获得了不同寻常的地位，并且是理解君德罗德更明显的哲学著作与她的文学作品之间联系的关键。我认为，君德罗德的革命概念在某些方面类似于她那个时代的其他思想家的思想，但对君德罗德所独有的人类个体及其与社会和自然的关系的构想产生了影响。第一的，我通过与同时代人的革命著作进行比较来证明将 Günderrode 的形而上学与她的政治思想联系起来的解释是合理的。Günderrode 经常以戏剧的形式掩盖她的政治思想，本文接下来考虑她的戏剧中的革命主题麦加先知穆罕默德和乌多拉。最后，论文将君德罗德关于革命的立场与赫尔德和费希特的主张进行了对比，认为君德罗德关于自然力量、政治权力和社会凝聚力的增强和衰减循环的概念不同于强调意识发展的男性中心模型。