Description
| Product ID: | 9780674744240 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Origin of the German Trauerspiel |
| Authors: | Author: Walter Benjamin, Howard Eiland |
| Page Count: | 336 |
| Subjects: | Philosophy of language, Philosophy of language, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Harvard University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Harvard University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-02-04 |
