There is no “factual subject-matter” that language conveys. “All language communicates itself in itself,” he insisted. In his essay on translation he therefore confronted a problem: translation could be said to replicate the bourgeois conception of transparent language. In any translation, what Benjamin called “information” could be compared to what he calls the “factual subject-matter” in the earlier essay. Just as a philosophy of language that sees the word as a mere medium is flawed, a translation that attempts to transmit information is a bad translation because there is no information.
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