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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.

Origin of the German Trauerspiel

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    Publisher: Harvard University Press
    Publication Date: 01/02/2019
    ISBN13: 9780674744240, 978-0674744240
    ISBN10: 0674744241
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    Philosophy of language Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books by Walter Benjamin

    Description

    Book 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.

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