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Origin Of The German Trauerspiel by Walter Benjamin, Howard Eiland (Translator) is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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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 o
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Walter Benjamin, Howard Eiland (Translator)
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674916357
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Critical Theory, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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