Article published In:
Special inaugural issue: Translating the Extreme[Translation in Society 1:1] 2022
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[Translation in Society 1:1] 2022
► pp. 15–34
Translating (political) religious and secularist worldviews in a post-secular age
Inspired by the works of François Burgat, Jürgen Habermas and Jean-Marc Ferry, this paper addresses the notions of the religious, the political, the radical/extreme, the conservative, the secular and the social as the objects of an extended conception of translation that defines translation as a mode of intercomprehension between competing or adversary groups within a single or among diverse societies. Shifting focus away from textual manipulations, it conceives of translation as a form of active engagement in social and discursive negotiations and explores translation as it brings about change in the dynamics of intergroup and intercultural relations.
Keywords: Islam, secularism, translation proviso, Habermas, citizen translation, inter-referential translation, social philosophy, social justice
Article outline
- Introduction
- Translating the perceived religious into political reality
- The social philosophy of translation
- Enlarging the social role of translation
- The translation proviso
- Critiques of Habermas’s concept of translation
- Citizen translation
- Conclusion: Translation as justice
- Notes
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