{"product_id":"radical-thinkersisbn-9781844673483","title":"Radical Thinkers","description":"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, \u003ci\u003eThe Origin of German Tragic Drama\u003c\/i\u003e sparkles with early insights and the seeds of Benjamin’s later thought.“Walter Benjamin is the most important German aesthetician and literary critic of [the twentieth] century.”—\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“He drew, from the obscure disdained German baroque, elements of the modern sensibility: the taste for allegory, surrealist shock effects, discontinuous utterance, a sense of historical catastrophe.”—Susan Sontag\u003cb\u003eWalter Benjamin\u003c\/b\u003e was a German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and is the author of \u003ci\u003eIlluminations\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Arcades Project\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Origin of German Tragic Drama.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Steiner\u003c\/b\u003e, author of dozens of books (\u003ci\u003eThe Death of Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAfter Babel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHeidegger\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn Bluebeard’s Castle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMy Unwritten Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGeorge Steiner at the New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e), is Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College at Cambridge University.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303782109413,"sku":"NP9781844673483","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781844673483.jpg?v=1730755308","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/radical-thinkersisbn-9781844673483","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}