After Babel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook After Babel write by George Steiner. This book was released on 1998. After Babel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of the theory and processes of language translation since the eighteenth century.
After Babel
After Babel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook After Babel write by George Steiner. This book was released on 1976. After Babel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When it first appeared in 1975, After Babel created a sensation, quickly establishing itself as both a controversial and seminal study of literary theory. In the original edition, Steiner provided readers with the first systematic investigation since the eighteenth century of the phenomenology and processes of translation both inside and between languages. Taking issue with the principal emphasis of modern linguistics, he finds the root of the "Babel problem" in our deep instinct for privacy and territory, noting that every people has in its language a unique body of shared secrecy. With this provocative thesis he analyzes every aspect of translation from fundamental conditions of interpretation to the most intricate of linguistic constructions.For the long-awaited second edition, Steiner entirely revised the text, added new and expanded notes, and wrote a new preface setting the work in the present context of hermeneutics, poetics, and translation studies. This new edition brings the bibliography up to the present with substantially updated references, including much Russian and Eastern European material. Like the towering figures of Derrida, Lacan, and Foucault, Steiner's work is central to current literary thought. After Babel, Third Edition is essential reading for anyone hoping to understand the debates raging in the academy today.
After Babel
After Babel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook After Babel write by George Steiner. This book was released on 2013-04-16. After Babel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A brilliant work . . . A dazzling meditation on the very nature of language itself” from the world-renowned scholar and author of The Poetry of Thought (Kirkus Reviews). In his classic work, literary critic and scholar George Steiner tackles what he considers the Babel “problem”: Why, over the course of history, have humans developed thousands of different languages when the social, material, and economic advantages of a single tongue are obvious? Steiner argues that different cultures’ desires for privacy and exclusivity led to each developing its own language. Translation, he believes, is at the very heart of human communication, and thus at the heart of human nature. From our everyday perception of the world around us, to creativity and the uninhibited imagination, to the often inexplicable poignancy of poetry, we are constantly translating—even from our native language.
Ethics After Babel
Ethics After Babel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ethics After Babel write by Jeffrey Stout. This book was released on 1990-01. Ethics After Babel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'The most thorough and persuasive attempt to date to take account of the multiplicity of moral standpoints in our culture and to argue that it does not threaten coherent moral discourse.... An unusually lucid and penetrating book.' J.B. Schneewind, Canadian Philosophical Reviews
Scientific Babel
Scientific Babel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scientific Babel write by Michael D. Gordin. This book was released on 2015-04-13. Scientific Babel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. English is the language of science today. No matter which languages you know, if you want your work seen, studied, and cited, you need to publish in English. But that hasn’t always been the case. Though there was a time when Latin dominated the field, for centuries science has been a polyglot enterprise, conducted in a number of languages whose importance waxed and waned over time—until the rise of English in the twentieth century. So how did we get from there to here? How did French, German, Latin, Russian, and even Esperanto give way to English? And what can we reconstruct of the experience of doing science in the polyglot past? With Scientific Babel, Michael D. Gordin resurrects that lost world, in part through an ingenious mechanism: the pages of his highly readable narrative account teem with footnotes—not offering background information, but presenting quoted material in its original language. The result is stunning: as we read about the rise and fall of languages, driven by politics, war, economics, and institutions, we actually see it happen in the ever-changing web of multilingual examples. The history of science, and of English as its dominant language, comes to life, and brings with it a new understanding not only of the frictions generated by a scientific community that spoke in many often mutually unintelligible voices, but also of the possibilities of the polyglot, and the losses that the dominance of English entails. Few historians of science write as well as Gordin, and Scientific Babel reveals his incredible command of the literature, language, and intellectual essence of science past and present. No reader who takes this linguistic journey with him will be disappointed.
