Age of Translation

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

• AcknowledgementsTranslator’s introduction by Chantal WrightSome textual notes on the translation of Antoine Berman’s commentaryTexts by Walter Benjamin discussed in The Age of TranslationFrench editor’s note by Isabelle BermanMy seminars at the Collège by Antoine Berman OVERTURECahier 1The metaphysics of languageFive characteristics of Benjamin’s thoughtBenjamin as translator‘The Task of the Translator: A prologue’THE COMMENTARY Cahier 2 Cahier 3 Cahier 4Cahier 5Cahier 6Cahier 7Cahier 8Cahier 9Cahier 10Index

'This is an enormously important work for philosophy and translation studies alike. Wright’s translation and commentary, erudite and unusually self-reflective, illuminate the complex epistemological questions that ground both Berman’s text and his gloss of Benjamin. Wright not only presents Berman’s work as foundational and eminently topical, but persuasively advances the intrinsic relevance of reflecting on translation in philosophical terms.'Michelle Bolduc, University of Exeter, UK