“Goethe's Elective Affinities show a set of external order, namely an experimental arrangement. Less of a statement than a thesis is that the chemistry of the social transferred into the experiment, the affinity in its course at the action level, more and more opposed to the orderly environment. The order will be blown up, from the inside out—through a course of action that is equal to a chain reaction develops its own momentum and life of its own destiny. The experiment finally leaves the subjects in renunciation, solitude and death. From an internal perspective, the level of action from the question of creation, defense and loss of order in the Elective Affinities is therefore new. Hence follows the search for a proper endowing instance. When it comes to right, who creates them? By whom it is possibly at risk? So who creates order in Goethe's novel?”