La ciudad representada. Poder y fábula en el Madrid de los Austrias

The genealogy of the modern European state cannot prescind from the founding and consolidation of the capital of the Catholic Monarchy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In fact, the case of Madrid proves to be paradigmatic in the study of the civic and civil practices that contributed to the development of the notion of persona ficta and to the efficacy of its institutional implementation. In this article, we will study the link between the ceremonial rituals of the Madrid of the Villa y Corte, the process of the centralization of the potestas carried out by the Habsburgs, and the gradual disappearance of the true communitas of the urbs regia: that is, its effectual civic convivium, strategically displaced and made invisible —even to the present day—by the pompous courtiers of baroque political representatio

«La vie contre la vie». Le jeune Hegel, lecteur du Wallenstein

To what extent is possible be reconciled with a tragic past? Could historical narration or dramatic performance help to get over the traumatic event indeed? Or just do they ascertain its constitutive contradictions, the split and the rift from a pain impossible to sublimate? Is the mourning experience based on the recovery of a feeble balance between the opposite drives, emotions and feelings from the will? Or does it on the synthetic assimilation of that opposition into another way of life? This essay travels hand in hand with Schiller and Hegel across the space opened by those questions. It starts from the dissatisfaction generated in the young Hegel by his reading of Schiller’s Wallenstein and it analyzes his different conceptions of the ethic pathos, as well as his uneven perspective about the Attic traged

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This project has received funding from the European Union´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No 82399