Reframing the Frame of Reason: Trans-lation in and Beyond Kant and Derrida - Couverture rigide

Dunkelsbuhler, Ulrike Oudee

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1573929581 ISBN 13 : 9781573929585

Editeur : Prometheus Books, 2002

Synopsis

This singular book, 'un livre singulier', as Jacques Derrida describes it in his foreword, cannot be placed in any traditionally established genre. It constitutes a genre unto itself, and as such is quite intentionally 'eccentric.' Ulrike Oudee Dunkelsbuhler has created an extraordinary, multifaceted work. In it the reader will find the most rigorous interpretation of Kant's "Critique of Judgment", a highly imaginative interpretation of Sophocles' "Antigone", a Freudian analysis of mourning and melancholia, and a development of Derrida's reflections on the frame. Further, these texts and topoi are connected, reframed, and translated from one to the other. The result is that this work cannot be labeled as philosophical commentary, literary criticism, Freudian analysis, or a theory of translation in any ordinary sense. What can be said about Dunkelsbuhler 's category-defying book is that it is a performance, not a 'work' as the term is usually understood (cf. the Greek term ergon). For its mode is precisely 'parergonal' - 'co-operating' only apparently with the 'work' (ergon) of reason in a way that in fact radically displaces it. The ergon that Dunkelsbuhler displaces is the framing logos of Western tradition, which not only separates the 'theoretical' (philosophical and aesthetic) domain from the sphere of the political and strictly distinguishes the corresponding literary genres, but also affirms the possibility of an exact, systematic, 'logical' translation between them. It thus operates by way of exclusion and incorporation in trying to assimilate the Other. Dunkelsbuhler's unique performance is also a translation of sorts, but not in any obvious sense. This 'translation' quite literally 'takes us beyond' the classic distinctions of reason and in the process helps us to discover new frames of understanding.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ulrike Oudee Dunkelsbuhler (Frankfurt, Germany) is the founder and chief executive of a foreign language training and translation agency and also works as a professional translator.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Prometheus Books
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1573929581
• ISBN 13: 9781573929585
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 277
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• Personne responsable: non disponible