The Origin Of German Tragic Drama

Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 325 pages
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Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781789604733

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The Origin of German Tragic Drama by Walter Benjamin Pdf

The Origin of German Tragic Drama is Walter Benjamin's most sustained and original work. It begins with a general theoretical introduction on the nature of the baroque art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, concentrating on the peculiar stage-form of royal martyr dramas called Trauerspiel. Benjamin also comments on the engravings of Durer and the theatre of Calderon and Shakespeare. Baroque tragedy, he argues, was distinguished from classical tragedy by its shift from myth into history. Georg Lukacs, an opponent of Benjamin's aesthetics, singled out The Origin of German Tragic Drama as one of the main sources of literary modernism in the twentieth century.

Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781844673483

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The Origin of German Tragic Drama by Walter Benjamin Pdf

Cited by Lukács as a principal source of literary modernism, Walter Benjamin’s study of the baroque stage-form called Trauerspiel (literally, “mourning play”) is the most complete document of his prismatic literary and philosophical practice. Engaging with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century German playwrights as well as the plays of Shakespeare and Calderón and the engravings of Dürer, Benjamin attempts to show how the historically charged forms of the Trauerspiel broke free of tragedy’s mythological timelessness. From its philosophical prologue, which offers a rare account of Benjamin’s early aesthetics, to its mind-wrenching meditation on allegory, The Origin of German Tragic Drama sparkles with early insights and the seeds of Benjamin’s later thought.

Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1859844138

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The Origin of German Tragic Drama by Walter Benjamin Pdf

Walter Benjamin is widely acknowledged as amongst the greatest literary critics of this century, and The Origin of German Tragic Drama is his most sustained and original work. Indeed, Georg Lukacs—one of the most trenchant opponents of Benjamin’s aesthetics—singled out this work as one of the main sources of literary modernism in the twentieth century. The Origin of German Tragic Drama begins with a general theoretical introduction on the nature of the baroque art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, concentrating on the peculiar stage-form of the royal martyr dramas called Trauerspiel. Benjamin also comments on the engravings of Durer, and the theatre of Shakespeare and Calderon. Baroque tragedy, he argues, was distinguished from classical tragedy by its shift from myth into history. The characteristic atmosphere of the Trauerspiel was consequently ‘melancholy’. The emblems of baroque allegory point to the extinct values of a classical world that they can never attain or repeat. Their suggestive power, however, remains to haunt subsequent cultures, down to this century.

Author : Beatrice Hanssen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000-12-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520226845

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Walter Benjamin's Other History by Beatrice Hanssen Pdf

In this study, Beatrice Hanssen unlocks the philosophical and ethical dimensions of the Trauerspiel study, showing how its thematics persisted well into the later writings of the thirties. For by introducing the materialistic category of natural history in The Origin of German Tragic Drama, Benjamin not only criticized idealistic conceptions of history writing but also expressed an ethico-theological call for another kind of history, one no longer anthropocentric in nature. This profound critique of historical thinking, Hanssen shows, went hand in hand with a radical de-limitation of the human subject, informed by his interest in questions about ethics, the law, and justice. Through an analysis of the seemingly innocuous figures of stones, animals, and angels that are scattered throughout his writings, Hanssen reconstructs the often neglected ethical dimension of his historical thought. In the course of doing so, she not only places Benjamin's work in the context of contemporaries such as Adorno, Cohen, Lukacs, Kafka, Kraus, and Heidegger but also demonstrates the persistence of Benjaminian themes in contemporary philosophy and critical theory.

Author : Jane O. Newman
Publisher : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801460883

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Benjamin's Library by Jane O. Newman Pdf

In Benjamin’s Library, Jane O. Newman offers, for the first time in any language, a reading of Walter Benjamin’s notoriously opaque work, Origin of the German Tragic Drama that systematically attends to its place in discussions of the Baroque in Benjamin’s day. Taking into account the literary and cultural contexts of Benjamin’s work, Newman recovers Benjamin’s relationship to the ideologically loaded readings of the literature and political theory of the seventeenth-century Baroque that abounded in Germany during the political and economic crises of the Weimar years. To date, the significance of the Baroque for Origin of the German Tragic Drama has been glossed over by students of Benjamin, most of whom have neither read it in this context nor engaged with the often incongruous debates about the period that filled both academic and popular texts in the years leading up to and following World War I. Armed with extraordinary historical, bibliographical, philological, and orthographic research, Newman shows the extent to which Benjamin participated in these debates by reconstructing the literal and figurative history of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century books that Benjamin analyzes and the literary, art historical and art theoretical, and political theological discussions of the Baroque with which he was familiar. In so doing, she challenges the exceptionalist, even hagiographic, approaches that have become common in Benjamin studies. The result is a deeply learned book that will infuse much-needed life into the study of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century.

Author : Brenda Machosky
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804763806

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Thinking Allegory Otherwise by Brenda Machosky Pdf

"Thinking Allegory Otherwise is a unique collection of essays by allegory specialists and other scholars who engage allegory in exciting new ways." "Not limited to an examination of literary texts and works of art, the essays focus on a wide range of topics, including architecture, philosophy, theater, science, and law. Indeed, all language is allegorical. This collection proves the truth of this statement, but more importantly, it shows the consequences of it. To think allegory otherwise is to think otherwise-forcing us to rethink not only the idea of allegory itself, but also the law and its execution, the literality offigurative abstraction, and the figurations upon which even hard science depends." --Book Jacket.

Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674916364

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Origin of the German Trauerspiel by Walter Benjamin Pdf

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.

Author : Stéphane Symons
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004242296

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Walter Benjamin by Stéphane Symons Pdf

In Walter Benjamin. Presence of Mind, Failure to Comprehend Stéphane Symons offers an innovative reading of the work of German philosopher, essayist and literary critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) that characterizes his writings as "neither a-theological, nor immediately theological."

Author : Olga Taxidou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748619879

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Tragedy, Modernity and Mourning by Olga Taxidou Pdf

Reassesses the Greek tragic form in relation to Athenian democracy, and to both civic and private forms of mourning.

Author : Fionnuala O’Neill Tonning,Erik Tonning,Jolyon Mitchell
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004416543

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The Transformations of Tragedy by Fionnuala O’Neill Tonning,Erik Tonning,Jolyon Mitchell Pdf

The Transformations of Tragedy explores different Christian influences, from the Early Modern to Modern periods, upon the development of post-classical Western tragedy.

Author : Max Pensky
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Bereavement
ISBN : 1558492968

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Melancholy Dialectics by Max Pensky Pdf

A new interpretation of the work of one of the major critical thinkers of the twentieth century

Author : Richard Wolin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520914308

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Walter Benjamin by Richard Wolin Pdf

Few twentieth-century thinkers have proven as influential as Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and cultural and literary critic. Richard Wolin's book remains among the clearest and most insightful introductions to Benjamin's writings, offering a philosophically rich exposition of his complex relationship to Adorno, Brecht, Jewish Messianism, and Western Marxism. Wolin provides nuanced interpretations of Benjamin's widely studied writings on Baudelaire, historiography, and art in the age of mechanical reproduction. In a new Introduction written especially for this edition, Wolin discusses the unfinished Arcades Project, as well as recent tendencies in the reception of Benjamin's work and the relevance of his ideas to contemporary debates about modernity and postmodernity.

Author : Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Philosophy, German
ISBN : UCBK:B000941908

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The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Pdf

Author : D. N. Rodowick
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674967380

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Philosophy’s Artful Conversation by D. N. Rodowick Pdf

Theory has been an embattled discourse in the academy for decades. But now it faces a serious challenge from those who want to model the analytical methods of all scholarly disciplines on the natural sciences. What is urgently needed, says D. N. Rodowick, is a revitalized concept of theory that can assess the limits of scientific explanation and defend the unique character of humanistic understanding. Philosophy’s Artful Conversation is a timely and searching examination of theory’s role in the arts and humanities today. Expanding the insights of his earlier book, Elegy for Theory, and drawing on the diverse thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. H. von Wright, P. M. S. Hacker, Richard Rorty, and Charles Taylor, Rodowick provides a blueprint of what he calls a “philosophy of the humanities.” In a surprising and illuminating turn, he views the historical emergence of theory through the lens of film theory, arguing that aesthetics, literary studies, and cinema studies cannot be separated where questions of theory are concerned. These discourses comprise a conceptual whole, providing an overarching model of critique that resembles, in embryonic form, what a new philosophy of the humanities might look like. Rodowick offers original readings of Gilles Deleuze and Stanley Cavell, bringing forward unexamined points of contact between two thinkers who associate philosophical expression with film and the arts. A major contribution to cross-disciplinary intellectual history, Philosophy’s Artful Conversation reveals the many threads connecting the arts and humanities with the history of philosophy.

Author : Walter Benjamin
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141932279

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One-Way Street and Other Writings by Walter Benjamin Pdf

Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This new selection brings together Benjamin's major works, including 'One-Way Street', his dreamlike, aphoristic observations of urban life in Weimar Germany; 'Unpacking My Library', a delightful meditation on book-collecting; the confessional 'Hashish in Marseille'; and 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', his seminal essay on how technology changes the way we appreciate art. Also including writings on subjects ranging from Proust to Kafka, violence to surrealism, this is the essential volume on one of the most prescient critical voices of the modern age. Contains: 'Unpacking My Library'; 'One-Way Street'; 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'; 'Brief History of Photography'; 'Hashish in Marseille'; 'On the Critique of Violence'; 'The Job of the Translator'; 'Surrealism'; 'Franz Kafka' and 'Picturing Proust'.