My review of the Dictionary of Untranslatables for Asymptote got cut up into a series of two-word phrases and used as an editorial review by the publishers. Anyone would sound like an idiot in this format, right? Right?! [A]stonishingly successful . . . entertaining and revealing . . . strikingly complete and correct. . . . [A] fascinating book. . . . The translation of European philosophy into American theory has probably been the most consequential event in American intellectual life in the last fifty years, but it has entailed a great deal of mistranslation.. . . The Dictionary of Untranslatables, in addition to its other pleasures, has a great deal to teach American scholars of the humanities about the depth and complexity of the languages and discourses weve picked up only recently--and a few powerful suggestions about what we may find waiting when we choose to turn back to our own.--Michael Kinnucan, Asymptote
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 22:24:47 +0000
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