사물의 언어, 사물의 온기

• 영문명: Language of Things or Warmness on the Thing: Walter Benjamin’s Translation Theory
• 발행기관: 한국비평이론학회
• 저자명: 최성희(Sunghee Chol)
• 간행물 정보: 『비평과 이론』제13권 2호, 133~154쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2008.12.30

영문 초록

This thesis is to examine Benjamin’s concept of translation and at the same time how it is connected with his criticism on language. Benjamin argues that language is the realization of the communicability of language: that is, language is not just a medium as means to communicate as commonly believed since Enlightenment, but a medium to communicate the mental entity immediately. This argument is to refute both bourgeois linguistic theory and mystic linguistic theory. Likewise, for Benjamin, translatability is an essential feature of certain works. Thus, both language and translation present themselves as the medium of immediacy; this lays groundwork against seeing translation as secondary representation to the original. Moreover, the immediacy of translation also makes it possible that he defines translation as a form or mode. ‘Translation as a form’ means that translation also has its own way not just resembling the original, but complementing its intentions. Translation should approach it focusing on its afterlife and intends language as a whole, ‘pure language.’ The notion of pure language is more clarified when we investigate the origin of language. We, then, can find the close relationship between language and the sense of similarity and mimesis that Benjamin uses. Language of mimetic faculty invokes us that present human beings have forgot original language function and too much depend on systemized and generalized language. ‘Pure language’ is one that has memory of mimetic function of the original language: it leads us to the world in which everything has language and warmness. ‘Warmness on the thing’ is a condition that we can feel and translate the language of things.

목차

1. 번역의 매개성

2. 형식으로서의 번역

3. 언어의 기원과 미메시스

4. 사물의 온기와 번역

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Abstract

키워드

발터 벤야민 번역 언어 비매개성 형식으로서 번역 미메시스적 능력 유사성 온기 Walter Benjamin translation language as such immediacy translation as a form mimetic faculty similarity warmness