«Auf dem Kopf gehen». Il discorso sulla follia nel Lenz di Georg Büchner

The essay aims to analyse Georg Büchner’s novel Lenz as a viable argument on madness that overturns the Cartesian perspective of Metaphysical Meditations. In itinerary mind which leads thinking subject self-understanding res cogitans – “still and immobile” starting point for understanding idea God thus unravellling doubt about very existence world its own corporeity Descartes excludes considering it what is must remain extraneous thought so through exercise can reach reliable knowledge regulates man’s in allows him get out whether dream does not exist ‘outside’ mind.
 this way, human outlined who know suffering, nor he experience dramas real existence, fragility vulnerability finiteness. Büchner instead gives voice poet torn suffers from God, his self. This discourse pathological verse relates darkest parts soul, is, those eluding any clinical opposition between reason represent, reason, an extraordinary trial our main metaphysical categories.