At Work in the Ruins of Morality

At Work in the Ruins of Morality

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Status

Released

Runtime

0h 24m

Original Title

In den Ruinen der Moral tätig

Director

Alexander Kluge

Description

Quoting from historian Tacitus' Annals, Alexander Kluge and Heiner Müller delve into the Roman Iron Age, talk about the modern style of Tacitus' prose, and debate borderline cases of legally sanctioned injustice. After Müller reads a passage about Tiberius' death (37 AD) and his successor Caligula Caesar, Kluge and Müller discuss Tacitus' conception of "history's highest function" as a teacher of virtues and admonisher of "evil words and deeds".