Origin of the German Trauerspiel / / Walter Benjamin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Benjamin, Walter,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Abbreviations --; Translator’s Introduction --; I. Epistemo-Critical Foreword --; II. Trauerspiel and Tragedy --; III. Allegory and Trauerspiel --; Appendix A: “Trauerspiel and Tragedy” (1916) --; Appendix B: “The Role of Language in Trauerspiel and Tragedy” (1916) --; Guide to Names --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674916357; 9783110652031
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674916357
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: 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.