Melancholy Dialectics: Walter Benjamin and the Play of Mourning

By Max Pensky

Book Overview

A comprehensive view of Benjamin's achievement, focusing on the central ideas of mourning and melancholia, developed in Benjamin's early work, Origin of German Tragic Drama (1928). Pensky sees the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870238531
• ISBN13: 9780870238536
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher