Origin of the German Trauerspiel

Informationen zum Autor Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) was the author of many works of literary and cultural analysis. Howard Eiland is an editor and translator of Benjamin’s writings. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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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• Authors: Walter Benjamin
• Assisted by: Howard Eiland (Translation), Eiland Howard (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9780674744240
• ISBN: 978-0-674-74424-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge