On Translation: The Games
... specialists 37 Hegel, G.W.F. 36 Heidegger, Martin 22 Herder, Johann Gottfried von 5 hermeneutics 25 hermeticisms 16 Hölderlin, Friedrich 21, 23, 38, 39 Homer 22, 34 hospitality 23–4 human condition 19, 33 Humboldt, Wilhelm von 5, 8, ...
On Translation
This new and expanded edition has two main parts. Part I is the complete text of the original work as published in the early 1980s.
"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.
Reminding us that The Bible, the Koran, the Torah and the works of the great philosophers are often only ever read in translation, Ricoeur reminds us that translation not only spreads knowledge but can change its very meaning.
In this book he turns to a topic at the heart of much of his work: what is translation and why is it so important? He reminds us that translation not only spreads knowledge but can change its very meaning.
He began thinking of translation as a craft; but, as he points out in the preface to this fascinating collection of his thoughts and conversations about this complex process, "in the hands of its best practitioners, (translation is) a form ...
On Translation