"“The Task of the Translator”: Walter Benjamin’s Essay in English, a Forschungsbericht"

Susan Ingram

TTR : traduction, terminologie, rédaction, vol. 10, n° 2, 1997, p. 207-233.

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A theory of allegory beyond Walter Benjamin and Paul de Man: with some remarks on allegory and memory.

Germanic Review, The, March, 2002 by Knaller, Susanne

In the essay De las alegorias a las novelas, Jorge Luis Borges declares allegorical art to be dumb and frivolous: "se que el arte alegorico parecio alguna vez encantador [...] ahora es intolerable." (1) The Argentinean author underscores his evaluation with a quotation from Benedetto Croce's Estetica: "Ma se il simbolo e concepito come inseparabile dall'intuizione artistica, e sinonimo dell'intuizione stessa, che ha sempre carattere ideale; non v'e nell'arte un doppio fondo, ma un rondo solo, e tutto in essa e simbolico perche tutto e ideale." (2)

Croce does not challenge the primacy of the symbol, as claimed by Goethe and the Romantics and exemplified by Samuel T. Coleridge: "Now an allegory is but a translation of abstract notions into picture language,...

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Michael Mack on Benjamin

An article reviewing Walter Benjamin's Notion of Law from a quite independent standpoint of appraisal
Abstract  In this article I give the first detailed reading of Benjamin's Zur Kritik der Gewalt as well as his Kapitalismus als Religion in its relation to Kant's notion of Recht. I shall give the first analysis of Kant's reversal of St. Paul's spirit-letter opposition. It is by means of such a reversal that Kant sets out to redefine both religion and law in a radically anti-Judaic manner. If Benjamin rejects law in Zur Kritik der Gewalt he does not criticise Jewish law, rather he attempts to undermine the ethical validity of KantianRecht. Yet Benjamin employs Kant's transcendental method. Benjamin's ambiguous relation to Kant becomes understandable through his 1934 Kafka essays. The rejection of Recht in Zur Kritik der Gewalt conceals a melancholic farewell to rabbinical Jewish law as voiced in the 1934 Kafka essays. Thus, the Kafka essays are read as Zur Kritik der Gewalt's missing link.

Rethinking Schmitt, Benjamin and Law's Foundation

La radice dei Concetti. Il fondamento della legge in Walter Benjamin e Carl Schmit Titolo Rivista: SOCIOLOGIA E RICERCA SOCIALE Autori o Curatori: Carmelo Lombardo Anno di pubblicazione: 2006  Fascicolo: 80 N. pagine: 24  Dimensione del file: 313 Kb.