Origin Of The German Trauerspiel
language: english
Publisher:
Harvard University Press, February of 2019 ‧
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SYNOPSIS
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.
DETAILS
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 9780674744240 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Release Date: | February of 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Dimensions: | 140 x 210 x 20 mm |
| Cover: | Softcover |
| Pages: | 336 |
| Format: | Book |
| Categories: |
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| EAN: | 9780674744240 |