Origin of the German Trauerspiel

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.

• | Author: Walter Benjamin
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: February 04, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 336 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0674744241
• | ISBN-13: 9780674744240