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Who Translates?: Translator Subjectivities Beyond Reason

Douglas Robinson

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2001 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

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 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.

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Paperback

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Release: February 01, 2001

ISBN: 0791448649

ISBN 13: 9780791448649

Who Translates?: Translator Subjectivities Beyond Reason

Douglas Robinson

4.2/5 ( ratings)

2001 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

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 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.

Language: English

Pages: 208

Format: Paperback

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Release: February 01, 2001

ISBN: 0791448649

ISBN 13: 9780791448649

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