Cover of Walter Benjamin's Other History: Of Stones, Animals, Human Beings, and Angels (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism)

Book 2000

Walter Benjamin's Other History: Of Stones, Animals, Human Beings, and Angels (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism)

Publisher
University of California Press
Language
English
Published
2000
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In his 1921 essay, "The Task of the Translator," Walter Benjamin argued that translations should be defined neither with respect to their producer nor to their recipients.