Il delinquente per l’onor perduto di Friedrich Schiller: o della congiuntura tra letteratura, psicologia e diritto nel tardo illuminismo tedesco

Friedrich Schiller's short story Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre (The Criminal of Lost Honour) is examined here as a product of the anthropology of the late German Enlightenment, which incorporates the demands of the reformist legal discourse at the time of enlightened absolutism. German-language literature, as evidenced by one of the few narrative works of the playwright and essayist, undergoes a radical paradigm shift in a universalistic and humanitarian sense at this time and turns to the study of human aberrations not only as facts, but as processes that can be read against the backdrop of the new interests in both law and experimental psychology that emerged in European late Enlightenment.