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Origin of the German Trauerspiel
Walter Benjamin
Origin of the German Trauerspiel
Walter Benjamin
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 · 434 g |
Language | English |
Translator | Eiland, Howard |
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