Traducción - Interacción - Retroacción

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Exponemos en este trabajo las ideas teóricas sobre la traducción desarrolladas por Walter Benjamin en 'La tarea del traductor', un ensayo que articula no sólo una teoría de la traducción, sino también una filosofía del lenguaje y de la interpretación. Destacaremos los elementos relativos a la perspectiva historica sobre la tradición, y los efectos de la retrospección, a los cuales Benjamin era especialmente sensible, como puede verse en sus 'Tesis sobre la filosofía de la historia'. Criticaremos un cierto idealismo que aparece en su concepción, resultado de unas maneras de concebir el tiempo, la retrospección, de la intertextualidad y de la tradición que son insuficientemente interaccionales. Un análisis de la interpretación desconstructiva según la entienden diversos miembros de la escuela de Yale sacará a la luz idealismo comparable, y puntos ciegos similares, unidos a la perspicacia crítica de estas perspectivas.

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Traducción – Interacción – Retroacción: 

Una relectura de Benjamin y de Man desde la teoría materialista del discurso

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2708048

 

 

English abstract: 

Translation – Interaction – Retroaction: A Rereading of Benjamin and de Man from a Materialist Theory of Discourse

This paper expounds the main conceptions of Walter Benjamin's theory of translation as they appear in 'The Task of the Translator', an essay which propounds not only a theory of traslation, but a philosophy of language and interpretation as well. Emphasis will fall on the historical perspective on tradition, and on the effects of retrospection and hindsight, to which Benjamin was particularly attuned (witness his 'Theses on the Philosophy of History'). This paper criticises some elements of idealism which surface in his conception, resulting from insufficiently interactional notions of time, retospection, intertextuality and tradition. An analysis of deconstructivist interpretation as understood by several members of the Yale school will reveal a comparable idealism, and similar blind spots, attending the critical insights of these approaches.

Note: Downloadable document is in Spanish.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 12
Keywords: Translation, Theory of translation, Interpretation, Hermeneutics, Deconstruction, Walter Benjamin, Critical theory, Idealism, Materialism, Dialogism, Discourse analysis, Interpretation

Reference Info: La traducción: Nuevos planteamientos teórico-metodológicos, ed. Azucena Penas Ibáñez (Madrid: Síntesis, 2015)

SSRN eJournal Classifications (Date posted: December 26, 2015)

Cognitive Science Network Subject Matter eJournals      Cognition & Culture: Culture, Communication, Design, Ethics, Morality, Religion, Rhetoric, & Semiotics eJournal - CMBO          CSN: Rhetoric & Semiotics (Topic) - CMBO              CSN: Semiotics (Sub-Topic) - CMBO

Literature Network Subject Matter eJournals      Literary Theory & Criticism eJournal - CMBO

Philosophy Research Network Subject Matter eJournals      History of Western Philosophy eJournal - CMBO          PRN: 20th Century Philosophy (Topic) - CMBO

Continental Philosophy eJournal - CMBO          PRN: Critical Theory (Topic) - CMBO

Philosophy of Language eJournal - CMBO          PRN: Pragmatics (Topic) - CMBO

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_____. "Traducción – Interacción – Retroacción: Una relectura de Benjamin y de Man desde la teoría materialista del discurso." En La traducción: Nuevos planteamientos teórico-metodológicos. Ed. Azucena Penas Ibáñez. Madrid: Síntesis, 2015. 105-15.*

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_____. "Traducción – Interacción – Retroacción: Una relectura de Benjamin y de Man desde la teoría materialista del discurso." Academia 24 Dec. 2015.*

         https://www.academia.edu/19818047/

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_____. "Traducción – Interacción – Retroacción: Una relectura de Benjamin y de Man desde la teoría materialista del discurso." ResearchGate 24 Dec. 2015.*

         DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.2893.0645

         https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287997481

         2015

_____. "Traducción - Interacción - Retroacción: Una relectura de Benjamin y de Man desde la teoría materialista del discurso (Translation - Interaction - Retroaction: A Rereading of Benjamin and de Man from a Materialist Theory of Discourse)." SSRN 26 Dec. 2015.*

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         Cognition & Culture: Culture, Communication ... Rhetoric & Semiotics eJournal 26 Dec. 2015.*

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         Literary Theory & Criticism eJournal 26 Dec. 2015.*

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         History of Western Philosophy eJournal 26 Dec. 2015.*

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         Continental Philosophy eJournal 26 Dec. 2015.*

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         Philosophy of Language eJournal 26 Dec. 2015.*

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_____. "Traducción - Interacción - Retroacción." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 4 Jan. 2016.*

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         2016

_____. "Traducción – Interacción – Retroacción: Una relectura de Benjamin y de Man desde la teoría materialista del discurso." Net Sight de José Angel García Landa 5 Jan. 2023.*

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de Man, Benzon, Meaning, Intention

On the poststructuralist theory of meaning; a comment to this passage on "Language Games" in Bill Benzon's New Savannah:

Consider this passage (de Man, p. 25):

“Intent” is seen, by analogy with a physical model, as a transfer of a psychic or mental content that exists in the mind of the poet to the mind of a reader, somewhat as one would pour wine from a jar into a glass. A certain content has to be transferred elsewhere, and the energy necessary to effect the transfer has to come from an outside source called intention.

De Man’s point was that, when we read a text, the intention (de Man uses the term in its somewhat rarified philosophical sense) that gives life to those signs on the page is our intention, not the author’s. And he is right.

(My commentary:)

On your comment on the text by de Man: it is all right "our" intention that animates the text and constructs meaning, but "our" intention cannot mean the intention of an isolated reader: it is a shared intention, shared by that reader with other readers of the same text with whom one would want to communicate, and also with the author. There is a community of meaning ranging across space and time; not a solid community of clear-cut meaning (there are fuzzy edges, negotiations as you say, etc.) but an interactive community nonetheless, and the author is part of that. Therefore, authorial intention cannot be dismissed any more than our own intentions as readers, and the communicative intent that we share with our own addressees when we try to make sense of a text.

Teoría interaccionalista del significado

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