La fisionomia di Mosca: tra neutralizzazione fenomenologica e indeterminazione del presentare. Derrida lettore di Benjamin tra racconti di viaggi e diari

Abstract

Jacques Derrida’s Moscou aller-retour can be read as a dialogue with Walter Benjamin’s Moscow Diaries. Both texts pose a problem that these writers tackled at the beginning of their careers, in texts that are theoretical reflections on their own works as translators, Benjamin in “The Task of the Translator”, and Derrida in his “Introduction” to L’Origine de la géométrie – the question of the reprise, the Derridean relève, the Hegelian Aufhebung, akin to Husserl’s phenomenological neutralization, the epoche, which happens in translation, but which is always already at stake in the reading-writing process.

Keywords

• walter benjamin
• jacques derrida
• moscow
• phenomenology
• translation
• travel narrative
• diary