On Translation

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Everyone complains about what is lost in translations. This is thefirst account I have seen of the potentially positive impact of translation, that itrepresents... a genuinely new contribution." -- Drew A.HylandIn his original philosophical exploration of translation, John Sallis shows that translating is much more than a matter of transposing onelanguage into another. At the very heart of language, translation is operativethroughout human thought and experience. Sallis approaches translation from fourdirections: from the dream of nontranslation, or universal translatability, througha scene of translation staged by Shakespeare, in which the entire range of senses oftranslation is played out, through the question of the force of words, and from therepresentation of untranslatability in painting and music. Drawing on Jakobson, Gadamer, Benjamin, and Derrida, Sallis shows how the classical concept oftranslation has undergone mutation and deconstruction.