Author : John Sallis
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253109446
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)
Book Synopsis On Translation by : John Sallis
Download or read book On Translation written by John Sallis and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Everyone complains about what is lost in translations. This is the first account I have seen of the potentially positive impact of translation, that it represents... a genuinely new contribution." -- Drew A. Hyland In his original philosophical exploration of translation, John Sallis shows that translating is much more than a matter of transposing one language into another. At the very heart of language, translation is operative throughout human thought and experience. Sallis approaches translation from four directions: from the dream of nontranslation, or universal translatability; through a scene of translation staged by Shakespeare, in which the entire range of senses of translation is played out; through the question of the force of words; and from the representation of untranslatability in painting and music. Drawing on Jakobson, Gadamer, Benjamin, and Derrida, Sallis shows how the classical concept of translation has undergone mutation and deconstruction.