Origin of the German Trauerspiel Benjamin WalterPaperback / softback
Origin of the German Trauerspiel Benjamin WalterPaperback / softback Origin of the German Trauerspiel was Walter Benjamin's first full, historically oriented analysis of modernity. Howard Eiland's…
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Origin of the German Trauerspiel Benjamin WalterPaperback / softback
Origin of the German Trauerspiel was Walter Benjamin's first full, historically oriented analysis of modernity. 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 the opera, Benjamin identifies allegory as the constitutive trope of the Baroque and of modernity itself. Readers of English know it as "The Origin of German Tragic Drama," but in fact the subject is something else--the play of mourning.
History as trauerspiel is the condition as well as Allegorical perception bespeaks a world of mutability and equivocation, a melancholy sense of eternal transience without access to the transcendentals of the medieval mystery plays--though no less haunted and bedeviled.