Origin of the German Trauerspiel

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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.

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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.

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