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Publication details [#5931]
Lianeri, Alexandra. 2002. Translation and the ideology of culture: reappraising Schleiermacher’s theory of translation. In Dimitriu, Ileana, ed. Translation, diversity and power. Special issue of Current Writing. Text and Reception in Southern Africa 14 (2): 2–18. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in Special issue
Publication language
English
Keywords
Person as a subject
Abstract
Lianeri’s reading of a seminal essay by the German Romantic philosopher and translator, Friedrich Schleiermacher, demonstrates the significance of translation concepts in both modern and postmodern culture, and suggests the importance of translation for contemporary ethical and political agendas. Translation played a crucial role in the epistemic shift that took place in the early nineteenth-century Germany that saw Enlightenment universalism modified by cultural diversity and pluralism. Culture came to be defined as a process of realising oneself through one’s encounters with the other: through a process of translation. According to Lianeri, the Romantic theories of translation expanded the concept of (un)translatability into a hermeneutics of interpretation with the power to effect radical changes in the meaning of the very term ‘culture’.
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