Origin of the German Trauerspiel
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, European, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy
| Author: | Walter Benjamin | ISBN: | 9780674916364 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press | Publication: | February 4, 2019 |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Walter Benjamin |
| ISBN: | 9780674916364 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Publication: | February 4, 2019 |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
