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Author Sandbank, Shimon, author

Title The wall and the arcade : Walter Benjamin's metaphysics of translation and its affiliates / Shimon Sandbank
Published Eastbourne ; Chicago : Sussex Academic Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 90 pages.)
Contents The metaphysics of translation: no reader -- The metaphysics of translation: inessential meaning -- The metaphysics of translation: completion, not equivalence -- The metaphysics of translation: breaking through the barriers of language -- The metaphysics of translation: poetry is that which gains in translation -- The colloidal suspension -- Benjamin and Paul Celan's way to pure language -- Pure language -- Aura and translation -- Rosenzweig and translation: back into life -- Derrida and the king's untouchable body -- The practical dimension
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940. Aufgabe des Übersetzers.
Jewish philosophy -- Influence
Jewish philosophy in literature.
Translating and interpreting -- Philosophy
Language and languages -- Philosophy.
Jewish philosophy in literature
Language and languages -- Philosophy
Translating and interpreting -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
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