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Hidden Refusal
[chapter]
2016
Nietzsche's Nihilism in Walter Benjamin
Both in the essay The Task of the Translator (1921) and in On Language as Such and on the Language of man (1916) Benjamin draws on many sources, often in contradiction with each other and proceeds with a double step. He draws the concept of Ursprache (Original Language/Pure Language) explicitly on both the Romantic and Jewish tradition. Epistemologically, this operation is similar to that of the German Romantics, but substantially it is very different because the original language of Benjamin
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