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dc.identifier	ECF_article_11155
dc.title	“Wie eine Äolsharfe vom Winde berührt”. Translation in Walter Benjamin’s Early Writings
dc.contributor.author	De Villa Massimiliano
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Articolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/the-journal-for-the-philosophy-of-language-mind-an/2022/2/wie-eine-aolsharfe-vom-winde-beruhrt/
dc.description.abstract	The article aims at analysing the concept of translation in Walter Benjamin’s early writings, especially with reference to the essays Über Sprache überhaupt und über die Sprache des Menschen (On Language as Such and on the Language of Man, 1916) and Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers (The Task of the Translator, 1921) but also taking other contemporary writings into consideration. It is shown how the concept of translation, inextricably linked to Benjamin’s reflection on language, draws on the one hand on the hermeneutics of early German Romanticism and on its reflection on translation and on the other is charged with the entire semantics of Jewish messianism, in continuous confluences of which the concepts of pure language (reine Sprache), transformation (Verwandlung), of the unintentional (intentionslos) and the inexpressive (ausdruckslos) are the most evident precipitate.
dc.relation.ispartof	JoLMA
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 3 \| Num. 2 \| Dicembre 2022
dc.issued	2022-12-20
dc.dateAccepted	2023-01-03
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-11-18
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2723-9640
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2022/02/005
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	German Romanticism
dc.subject	Language
dc.subject	Messianism
dc.subject	Source language
dc.subject	Target language
dc.subject	Translation
dc.subject	Walter Benjamin

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Translation in Walter Benjamin’s Early Writings

Massimiliano De Villa Università degli Studi di Trento, Italia

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The article aims at analysing the concept of translation in Walter Benjamin’s early writings, especially with reference to the essays Über Sprache überhaupt und über die Sprache des Menschen (On Language as Such and on the Language of Man, 1916) and Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers (The Task of the Translator, 1921) but also taking other contemporary writings into consideration. It is shown how the concept of translation, inextricably linked to Benjamin’s reflection on language, draws on the one hand on the hermeneutics of early German Romanticism and on its reflection on translation and on the other is charged with the entire semantics of Jewish messianism, in continuous confluences of which the concepts of pure language (reine Sprache), transformation (Verwandlung), of the unintentional (intentionslos) and the inexpressive (ausdruckslos) are the most evident precipitate.

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20 Dicembre 2022

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03 Gennaio 2023

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18 Novembre 2022

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Keywords: German Romanticism • Source language • Walter Benjamin • Target language • Language • Translation • Messianism

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