Origin of the German Trauerspiel

ISBN-13: 9780674744240 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 336 str.

Walter Benjamin; Howard Eiland

Opis

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.