The Origin of German Tragic Drama by Walter Benjamin ISBN 13: 9780860918370

Walter Benjamin 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 Illuminations , The Arcades Project , and The Origin of German Tragic Drama. George Steiner , author of dozens of books ( The Death of Tragedy , After Babel , Heidegger , In Bluebeard’s Castle , My Unwritten Books , George Steiner at the New Yorker ), is Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College at Cambridge University.