Origin of the German Trauerspiel - Walter Benjamin - Books - Harvard University Press - 9780674744240 - February 4, 2019
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Walter Benjamin
Origin of the German Trauerspiel

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Focusing on the 17th-century play of mourning, Walter Benjamin identifies allegory as the constitutive trope of modernity, bespeaking a haunted, bedeviled world of mutability and eternal transience. In this rigorous elegant translation, history as trauerspiel is the condition as well as subject of modern allegory in its inscription of the abyssal.

336 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released February 4, 2019
ISBN13 9780674744240
Publishers Harvard University Press
Pages 336
Dimensions 208 × 141 × 18 mm   ·   422 g
Language English  
Translator Eiland, Howard

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