Who translates? : translator subjectivities beyond reason / Douglas Robinson.

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Robinson, Douglas, 1954-

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0791448630
9780791448632
0791448649
9780791448649
079149117X
9780791491171

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Who translates?.DDC classification:

418/.02 21

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P306 .R644 2001eb

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17.95

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Contents:

Introduction: Who Translates? -- pt. 1. The Spirit-Channeling Model -- 1. Reason and Spirit -- 2. The Divine Inspiration of Translation -- pt. 2. Ideology -- 3. Ideology and Cryptonymy -- 4. The (Ideo)logic of Spectrality -- pt. 3. Transient Assemblies -- 5. The Pandemonium Self -- 6. The Invisible Hand -- Conclusion: Beyond Reason.

Review: "Translators have long claimed that their job is to "step aside and let the source author speak through them." In Who Translates? Douglas Robinson uses this adage to set up a series of "postrationalist" perspectives on translation, all based on the recognition that translation has always been thought of in terms of the translator's surrender to forces beyond his or her rational control. Exploring this theme, Robinson examines Plato's Ion, Philo Judaeus and Augustine on the Septuagint, Paul on inspired interpreters, Joseph Smith on the Book of Mormon, and Schleiermacher, Marx, and Heidegger on translation. He traces the imaginative and historical linkages between twentieth-century conceptions of ideology and ancient conceptions of spirit-channeling, and the performative inversion of power relations by which the "channel" (or translator) comes to wield the source author as his or her tool.Summary: And he argues throughout for a postrationalist conception of translation based not on the translator's rational control of words and meanings but rather on a flowing through the translator of voices and textualities."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-201) and index.

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"Translators have long claimed that their job is to "step aside and let the source author speak through them." In Who Translates? Douglas Robinson uses this adage to set up a series of "postrationalist" perspectives on translation, all based on the recognition that translation has always been thought of in terms of the translator's surrender to forces beyond his or her rational control. Exploring this theme, Robinson examines Plato's Ion, Philo Judaeus and Augustine on the Septuagint, Paul on inspired interpreters, Joseph Smith on the Book of Mormon, and Schleiermacher, Marx, and Heidegger on translation. He traces the imaginative and historical linkages between twentieth-century conceptions of ideology and ancient conceptions of spirit-channeling, and the performative inversion of power relations by which the "channel" (or translator) comes to wield the source author as his or her tool.

And he argues throughout for a postrationalist conception of translation based not on the translator's rational control of words and meanings but rather on a flowing through the translator of voices and textualities."--Jacket.

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