“Endemoniadamente humana”. Adorno y las grietas del clasicismo en la "Ifigenia" de Goethe
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2019
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Maiso J. (2019). “Endemoniadamente humana”. Adorno y las grietas del clasicismo en la "Ifigenia" de Goethe. Res Publica. Revista de Historia de las Ideas Políticas. 2019 ; 22(3): 623-634.
Abstract
El artículo explicita la problemática que Adorno explorara en su breve texto “Sobre el clasicismo en la Ifigenia de Goethe”, publicado en 1967. Si el drama de Goethe se considera uno de los puntos culminantes de la institución burguesa del arte y un caso ejemplar de la revisitación de la Antigüedad en el clasicismo temprano, aquí nos interesa analizar las ambivalencias que Adorno detecta en el clasicismo a partir de esta obra. Según su análisis, en el centro de la obra late la tensión entre civilización y barbarie, que se articula a partir de la propia noción de mito y la posibilidad de reconciliarlo. El análisis adorniano del drama de Goethe se interpreta así en continuidad con la dialéctica de la Ilustración, revelando los momentos en los que los ideales del clasicismo se resquebrajan, poniendo de manifiesto sus contradicciones. Es desde aquí desde donde cobra significación la figura femenina de Ifigenia como “endemoniadamente humana”.
The present paper analyzes the issues Adorno explored in his short essay “On the Classi-cism of Goethe’s Iphigenia”, published in 1967. If Goethe’s drama is considered one of the highlights of the bourgeois institution of art and an exemplary exponent of the revisitation of Antiquity in early Classicism, here we intend to focus the ambivalences Adorno detected in Classicism itself from the analysis of this piece. According to his interpretation, the tension between civilization and barbarism is at the core of the piece itself, and it is articulated from the very notion of myth and the possibility of its reconciliation. Adorno’s analysis of Goethe’s drama is to be understood within the framework of the Dialectic of Enlightenment, showing the moments in which the ideals of classicism crack, revealing their inner contradictions. It is from here that the female figure of Iphigenia becomes significant, as “devilishly human”.
The present paper analyzes the issues Adorno explored in his short essay “On the Classi-cism of Goethe’s Iphigenia”, published in 1967. If Goethe’s drama is considered one of the highlights of the bourgeois institution of art and an exemplary exponent of the revisitation of Antiquity in early Classicism, here we intend to focus the ambivalences Adorno detected in Classicism itself from the analysis of this piece. According to his interpretation, the tension between civilization and barbarism is at the core of the piece itself, and it is articulated from the very notion of myth and the possibility of its reconciliation. Adorno’s analysis of Goethe’s drama is to be understood within the framework of the Dialectic of Enlightenment, showing the moments in which the ideals of classicism crack, revealing their inner contradictions. It is from here that the female figure of Iphigenia becomes significant, as “devilishly human”.