Full Description
This book proposes a new way for scholars in, for example, Education, Literary Studies, and Philosophy to approach texts and other phenomena through the concept and practice of translation. Its interdisciplinary perspective makes the book of value for graduate students and scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The unique take on translation as related to the notion of aporia is applied to a number of seminal and classical texts within literature, poetry, and philosophy, which gives the reader new understandings of the workings of language and what happens within and between languages, as well as within and between disciplines, when some form of interpretation or analysis is at work. Importantly, the book develops the notion of aporias of translation as a way to learn and develop our understanding of texts and phenomena, and thus functions as a pedagogical process, which helps us come to terms with the boundaries of language and academic disciplines.
Contents
1. Introduction: Aporias of Translation.- 2. The Education of Death.- 3. Translation and Aporia in Censorship, Critique, and Education.- 4. Sensitive Readings: Literature and the Discourse of Critical Thinking.- 5. The (Ir)responsibilty of Teaching: Deconstructing Diversity.- 6. Translation and Poetry: Reading John Ashbery.- 7. Translation and the Aporias of "Words".- 8. Coda: Aporia and the Excess of Translation and Education.
