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Lecture | Regulating Mimesis: The Theater of Education in Goethe's “pädagogische Provinz”

Thursday, March 1, 2012, 5:00 pm

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In Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, Goethe sketches a “pädagogische Provinz,” a boarding school expanded into a miniature state. Echoing critics of mimesis from Plato to Rousseau, the school’s curriculum contains no classes in the theatrical arts. Rather, all practices attributed to the realm of theater are strictly forbidden. Prof. Martin Jörg Schäfer’s talk addresses Goethe’s notion of a “pädagogische Provinz” within the historical context of the German educational sciences emerging in the late 18th century. Drawing on the theoretical work of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, the vocal banishment of all things theatrical is shown to conceal an intimate relation between the realm of education and the realm of theater. Paradoxically, the school can banish theater, since it is itself a ‘theater of education.’ The event is in English.

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