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Inanimation: Theories of Inorganic Life

David Wills

Print publication date: 2016

Print ISBN-13: 9780816698820

Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: January 2017

DOI: 10.5749/minnesota/9780816698820.001.0001

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Naming the Mechanical Angel

Naming the Mechanical Angel

Benjamin

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(p.153) 5 Naming the Mechanical Angel
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Inanimation
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David Wills

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University of Minnesota Press
DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816698820.003.0006

This chapter traces references to life, and particularly to “inorganic life” in relation to questions of translation, as found in texts by Walter Benjamin such as “On Language as Such” and “The Task of the Translator.”

Keywords:   Walter Benjamin, On Language as Such, inorganic life, translation, angel

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