Abstract
The main subject of the article is the problem of negative pleasure, or pathos, being a feature of dramatic art. In the XVIII century, in France, Charles Batteux defined art as the human activity whose sole aim is to give pleasure. Seen in this light the plots of dramas, full of intrigues, crimes, and terrifying and even mad characters were in flagrant contradiction with the theory of art understood as pleasure. The leading aestheticians of the century, Jean-Baptiste Du Bos, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing i Friedrich Schiller tried to solve the problem – the last one making use of the aesthetic theory of Immanuel Kant. Their attempts resulted in an interesting conceptions of dramatic art, as using the feeling of sublimity to show the tragedy of the world and of human dignity.
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