The case study is one of the fundamental narratives and tools of understanding in modern times, not only in scientific contexts but also in the popular cultural description of humanity. It seeks to connect the characterization of an individual and their specific life circumstances with fundamental anthropological insights. A significant part of this success story of the case study is a fundamental shift in the epistemology of case studies that occurred around 1800, which begins to conceptualize the case based on the construction of a subject that is meant to be representative of other individuals precisely because of its uniqueness. This investigation explores this shift by examining Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther," Friedrich Schiller's "The Robbers," Karl Philipp Moritz's "From K...’s Papers," and.