Why Concepts Matter: Translating Social and Political Thought - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004194266 ISBN 13 : 9789004194267

Editeur : Brill, 2012

Synopsis

Translation is indispensible to transmissions of knowledge across time and place; to understanding how and what others think. There is a vast stock of theories about how to translate, deriving mainly from controversies about sacred and literary works. Yet there is little discussion of the distinctive issues involved in translating political and social thought. This volume breaks new ground by focusing on them. Thirteen scholars consider problems arising from the study of translation and the cultural transfer of texts. Especially novel is the application of these issues to two relatively new disciplines: translation studies, and the history of concepts (Begriffsgeschichte). This volume opens a discussion of what and how each of them can learn from, and contribute to, the others.

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À propos de l'auteur

Martin J. Burke (Ph.D., Michigan, '87) is a Professor of History at CUNY. He is author of The Conundrum of Class: Public Discourse on the Social Order in America, and executive co-editor of The Journal of the History of Ideas.

Melvin Richter (Ph.D., Harvard, '53) is an Emeritus Professor of Political Science at CUNY. Among his many works are The History of Political and Social Concepts: an Introduction, and The Meaning of Historical Terms and Concepts: New Studies on Begriffsgeschichte.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004194266
• ISBN 13: 9789004194267
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 252
• Éditeur: Burke Martin, Richter Melvin
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible