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Il melanconico barocco e lo Stato moderno

2018, Quaderni di Inschibboleth, n. 10

The controversial relationship between Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt rekindled in the mid-1950s, when Schmitt composed a work with a title Hamlet oder Hekuba, with the esplicit intention to recalling the Benjamin’s essay on Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels. The object of the dispute is the Shakespearean drama and in particular the enigmatic figure of Hamlet. This writing tries to retrace and decipher the open tracks by the two German thinkers in their definition of the baroque world, highlighting this point: the Baroque era is heretical with respect to the foundations of post-medieval civilization but able to indicate decisive categories to read the end of the modern era.