5/18/2023 0 Comments The origin of german tragic dramaMoreover, the concepts and methods introduced in The Origin of German Tragic Drama helped shape Benjamin’s more popular, later works and proved integral to the development of “Frankfurt School” cultural criticism. Yet within a decade, Theodor Adorno would be teaching the work in his inaugural course at the very same university, while cultural critics like Siegfried Kracauer recognized Benjamin’s major innovations in philosophy and criticism. Submitted to secure an academic position at the University of Frankfurt in 1925, the book was poorly received, due both to its relative obscurity and its disregard for traditional academic boundaries. In the process of drawing a sharp distinction between tragedy and Trauerspiel (German mourning plays), the text interrogates the very possibilities of knowledge, truth, universal history, criticism, and methodology. Walter Benjamin: The Origin of German Tragic Dramaīest known for his philosophical fragments, art criticism, and unfinished works, Walter Benjamin published only one major academic monograph in his lifetime, The Origin of German Tragic Drama.
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