Origin of the German Trauerspiel

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Origin of the German Trauerspiel

Authors	Walter Benjamin
Publisher	Harvard University Press
Year	04/02/2019
Pages	336
Version	paperback
Readership level	Professional and scholarly
Language	English
ISBN	9780674744240
Categories	Philosophy of language

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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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