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Episode #152 ... The Frankfurt School - Walter Benjamin pt. 1

Philosophize This!

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Translating the Meaning Behind a Work of Art?

Ben hamin: If we're trying to translate the full meaning behind a work of art, the reader or the beholder shouldn't really matter at all. The task of the translator is to engage in this purely technical exercise of taking the contents one thing and dumping it over into another language as perfectly as possible. Take this as an example, tchaikovsky's 18 12 overture, song about the war of 18 12. Powerful song. But have i recreated the extent of the meaning behind this work of art? Look, something i made in the year 20 21 in my condo alone cannot possibly capture the meaning behind these works of art. And that's because art is not about

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