Translation and Im-mediacy: The Schleiermacher in Benjamin
Keywords:
Friedrich Schleiermacher, Walter Benjamin, Translation, Romanticism, Immediacy, NewnessAbstract
This study explores the connections between Friedrich Schleiermacher and Walter Benjamin, specifically regarding their respective theorizations on translation. The article points to some of the affirmations that presuppose the impact of the former on the thought of the latter, and sheds light on key aspects of Schleiermacher’s thinking on translation. Moreover, it also examines the explicit references to Schleiermacher in the work of Benjamin, which are mostly related to Romanticism, as well as the notional intersections; an example of which is the matter of immediacy. The article concludes that what most differentiates the two thinkers is the level of historical development of a bourgeois culture of language in their social contexts, and what they share is, above all, a commitment to highlight translation’s potential in the establishment of newness, stemming from the “foreign,” in the target language.
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