Origin of the German Trauerspiel / / 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 m...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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