The Robbersby F. Schiller. Study of the Postcolonial in the Light of 18th Century German Romantism

ABSTRACT:This article is an attempt to understand the African postcolonial cultural situation from the German romanticism of the 18th century. Through a study of the Schillerian critique of the cynicism of modern western bourgeois society, the article concludes the African postcolonial moment characterized by violence and vulgarity corresponds to the cultural logic of postmodern capitalism in the periphery societies. Instead of neoliberal aesthetic obscenity, the article proposes a new romanticism more attached to human’s aspirations for justice, equality and beauty.

Keywords: – Capitalism, postcolonialism, postmodernism, Robber, Romantism