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The main character in Kleist's "Michael Kohlhaas" novella sacrifices himself in order to guarantee his survival. Nonetheless, as the reader will eventually notice, his fight produces no new reality at all, but only reaffirms a law that was already in force. A magic and natural law wich will send him on a journey of vengeance and justice. At the end of it, the man who laboured to ratify himself as an autonomous subject ends up serving as an object. But the result will be as well one of confirmation from the order wich gave birth to this subject. A strange order where contradictory elements (rule of law/lawlessness; violence/peace; justice/injustice; myth/history; heaven/hell; etc.) affirm themselves mutually.