The publishers of the English translation have enhanced Benjamin’s esotericism by omitting all page numbers from the table of contents, as well as by printing the six separate sections of the book’s two parts with no indication of where one stops and the next one starts. That is surely the immediate reason why first the Department of Germanic Studies and then the Department of Philosophy of Art of the University of Frankfurt rejected this study of seventeenth-century dramatists when it was presented to them as a thesis. The Origin of German Tragic Drama ( Trauerspiel) is an esoteric book. Friedrich Schlegel, Lyceum Fragment, number 20 Aber die, welche gebildet sind und sich bilden, müssen immer mehr draus lernen wollen. Eine klassische Schrift muss nie ganz verstanden werden können.
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