The Physiognomy of Moscow: Between Phenomenological Neutralization and Indeterminacy of the Present. Derrida Reader of Benjamin between Travel Narratives and Diaries Cover Image
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La fisionomia di Mosca: tra neutralizzazione fenomenologica e indeterminazione del presentare. Derrida lettore di Benjamin tra racconti di viaggi e diari
The Physiognomy of Moscow: Between Phenomenological Neutralization and Indeterminacy of the Present. Derrida Reader of Benjamin between Travel Narratives and Diaries

Author(s): Francesca Manzari
Subject(s): Contemporary Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Theory of Literature
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
Keywords: Walter Benjamin; Jacques Derrida; Moscow; Phenomenology; Translation; Travel Narrative; Diary;

Summary/Abstract: Jacques Derrida’s Moscou aller-retour can be read as a dialogue with Walter Benjamin’s Moscow Diaries. Both texts pose a problem that these writers tackled at the beginning of their careers, in texts that are theoretical reflections on their own works as translators, Benjaminin “The Task of the Translator”, and Derrida in his “Introduction” to L’Origine de la géométrie– the question of the reprise, the Derridean relève, the Hegelian Aufhebung, akin to Husserl’s phenomenological neutralization, the epoche, which happens in translation, but which is always already at stake in the reading-writing process.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 44
  • Page Range: 281-292
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Italian