Origin of the german trauerspiel
Auteur :
Benjamin, Walter
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674744240
Date de publication :
4 févr. 2019
Dimensions :
21,0 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.