Origin of the German Trauerspiel
| Author | : Walter Benjamin |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2019-02-04 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780674916364 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0674916360 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (360 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Origin of the German Trauerspiel by : Walter Benjamin
Download or read book Origin of the German Trauerspiel written by Walter Benjamin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.