Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 13:44:17 +0100 Subject: PMC: What is Postmodernism: A Demand Just an aside to my previous post regarding the use of the word "aufklarung", I found this passage on a cite describing Adorno's "Aesthetic Theory": Inserting the 'silver rib of a foreign word' into an idea, Walter Benjamin argued in a passage Adorno was fond of quoting, helps the idea to survive. Meant to undermine the ideology of an entirely organic language, free of all alien intrusions, this insight can be fruitfully extended to distinguished translations of entire texts. I am sure that sly bugger Lyotard (and his translator) slipped the german words in on us fully aware of this.
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