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Origin of the German Trauerspiel

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

Origin of the German Trauerspiel

By Walter Benjamin

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Origin of the German Trauerspiel was Walter Benjamin's first full, historically oriented analysis of modernity. Readers of English know it as "The Origin of German Tragic Drama," but in fact the subject is something else-the play of mourning. Howard Eiland's completely new English translation, the first since 1977, is closer to the German text and more consistent with Benjamin's philosophical idiom.Focusing on the extravagant seventeenth-century theatrical genre of the trauerspiel, precursor of ...Show more

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9780674744240

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published year

2019

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1

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Origin of the German Trauerspiel

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Paperback

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