The Age of Translation

The Age of Translation is the first English translation of Antoine Berman's commentary on Walter Benjamin's seminal essay 'The Task of the Translator'. Chantal Wright's translation includes an introduction which positions the text in relation to current developments in translation studies, and provides prefatory explanations before each section as a guide to Walter Benjamin's ideas.

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Chantal Wright is Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. She is the author of Literary Translation (Routledge, 2016).

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The Age of Translation is the first English translation of Antoine Berman's commentary on Walter Benjamin's seminal essay 'The Task of the Translator'. Chantal Wright's translation includes an introduction which positions the text in relation to current developments in translation studies, and provides prefatory explanations before each section as a guide to Walter Benjamin's ideas. These include influential concepts such as the 'afterlife' of literary works, the 'kinship' of languages, and the metaphysical notion of 'pure language'. The Age of Translation is a vital read for students and scholars in the fields of translation studies, literary studies, cultural studies and philosophy.

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Acknowledgements

Translator's introduction by Chantal Wright

Some textual notes on the translation of Antoine Berman's commentary

Texts by Walter Benjamin discussed in *The Age of Translation

• French editor's note by Isabelle Berman

My seminars at the Collège by Antoine Berman

OVERTURE

Cahier 1

The metaphysics of language

Five characteristics of Benjamin's thought

Benjamin as translator

'The Task of the Translator: A prologue'

THE COMMENTARY

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Index *