Preliminary Table of Contents:
1. The Dream of Nontranslation
2. Scenes of Translation at Large
3. Translation and the Force of Words
4. Varieties of Untranslatability
A creative philosophical reflection on the nature and process of translation
John Sallis is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. His books include Force of Imagination: The Sense of the Elemental; Chorology: On Beginning in Plato’s Timaeus; and Shades—Of Painting at the Limit (all Indiana University Press).
"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
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