Translation, Philosophy, Colonial Difference

ISBN-13: 9789622097742 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 360 str.

Naoki Sakai;Jon Solomon

Opis

The fourth book in the Traces series brings together an international group of authors to focus on the problems of translation at the crossroads between economics, ontology, and politics in the globalizing world today.The authors deal, both theoretically and empirically, with the historical obstacles and future opportunities offered by an emerging global order that is still struggling with the legacy of the previous four centuries of Eurocentric capitalist development. The authors amply illustrate that the concept of translation is far from being singularly determined, and how extremely difficult it is for philosophy to be distinct from translation. Here translation is regarded as a general concept, by which the Eurocentric framework implicit in the existent academic practices of comparison is problematized and according to which old questions are transformed into new ones and articulated to one another across disciplinary boundaries and regional or national borders.Naoki Sakai is a professor of comparative literature and Asian studies at Cornell University. Jon Solomon is an assistant professor in the Graduate Institute of Future Studies, Tamkang University, Taiwan. Other contributors include Serena Anderlini-D?Onoforio, Jacques Bidet, Didier Bigo, Brian Holmes, Yoshihiko Ichida, Fran?ois Laruelle, Takaaki Moriaki, Jean-Luc Nancy, Frederic Neyrat, Brett Neilson, Osamu Nishitani, Sathya Rao, and Hiroaki Yamada.To visit the Traces Web site: http: //www.arts.cornell.edu/traces/