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After Babel
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Author : George Steiner
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1998
After Babel written by George Steiner and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Hermeneutics categories.
A study of the theory and processes of language translation since the eighteenth century.
After Babel
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Author : George Steiner
language : en
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1976
After Babel written by George Steiner and has been published by New York : Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Language and languages categories.
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.
The Bible After Babel
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Author : John Joseph Collins
language : en
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 2005-11-15
The Bible After Babel written by John Joseph Collins and has been published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-15 with Religion categories.
In The Bible after Babel John J. Collins considers the effect of the postmodern situation on biblical, primarily Old Testament, criticism over the last three decades. Collins examines the quest of historical criticism to objectively establish a text's basic meaning. Accepting that the Bible may no longer provide secure "foundations" for faith, Collins still highlights its ethical challenge to be concerned for "the other"--A challenge central both to Old Testament ethics and to the teaching of Jesus. --from publisher description.
After Babel
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Author : Christine Webb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
After Babel written by Christine Webb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with English poetry categories.
Before And After Babel
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Author : Marc Van De Mieroop
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023
Before And After Babel written by Marc Van De Mieroop and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Cuneiform writing categories.
"The Lord confused the language of all the earth," so the Tower of Babel story in the Hebrew Bible's book of Genesis tells us to explain why the world's people communicate in countless languages while previously they all spoke only one. This book argues that the biblical confusion reallyhappened in the ancient Near East, not in speech, however, but in writing. It examines the millennia-long history of writing in the region and shows a radical change from the third and second millennia to the first millennium BC.Before "Babel" any intellectual who wrote did so as a participant in a cosmopolitan tradition with its roots in Babylonia, its language, and its cuneiform script. After "Babel" scribes from all over the eastern Mediterranean, including Greece, used a profusion of vernacular languages and scripts toexpress themselves. Yet they did so in dialogue with the Babylonian cuneiform tradition still maintained by the successive Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian empires that controlled their world, oftentimes as acts of resistance, aware of cosmopolitan ideas and motifs but subverting them. In order toframe the rich intellectual history of this region in the ancient past Before and after Babel describes and analyzes the Babylonian cosmopolitan system, how ancient Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, and other vernacular systems interacted with it in multiple and intricate ways, and their consequences.
Ethics After Babel
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Author : Jeffrey Stout
language : en
Publisher: James Clarke & Co.
Release Date : 1990
Ethics After Babel written by Jeffrey Stout and has been published by James Clarke & Co. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Philosophy categories.
Philosophers used to speak as if there were a single, essentially unitary object to be studied in ethics, something called 'the language of morals'. Now they speak as if there are many moral languages. This new talk, fashionable throughout the humanities and social sciences, has nonetheless inspired discontent. Jeffrey Stout's discussion of this discontent opens up a fresh perspective on moral diversity. "I won't disprove moral nihilism or moral skepticism," he says, "No knockdown argument, intended to demolish opposing positions, will be given. I will try to show simply that the facts of moral diversity don't compel us to become nihilists or skeptics, to abandon the notions of moral truth and justified moral belief."
The Bible After Babel
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Author : John J. Collins
language : en
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 2005-11-15
The Bible After Babel written by John J. Collins and has been published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-15 with Religion categories.
Biblical scholars today often sound as if they are caught in the aftermath of Babel -- a clamor of voices unable to reach common agreement. Yet is this confusion necessarily a bad thing? Many postmodern critics see the recent profusion of critical approaches as a welcome opportunity for the emergence of diverse new techniques. In The Bible after Babel noted biblical scholar John J. Collins considers the effect of the postmodern situation on biblical, primarily Old Testament, criticism over the last three decades. Engaging and even-handed, Collins examines the quest of historical criticism to objectively establish a text's basic meaning. Accepting that the Bible may no longer provide secure "foundations" for faith, Collins still highlights its ethical challenge to be concerned for "the other" -- a challenge central both to Old Testament ethics and to the teaching of Jesus.
Ethics After Babel
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Author : Jeffrey Stout
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
Release Date : 1990-01
Ethics After Babel written by Jeffrey Stout and has been published by Beacon Press (MA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-01 with Philosophy categories.
'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
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Author : Michael D. Gordin
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015-04-13
Scientific Babel written by Michael D. Gordin and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-13 with Science categories.
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.
Earthwards
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Author : Gary Shapiro
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1995
Earthwards written by Gary Shapiro and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Art categories.
The untimely death of Robert Smithson in 1973 at age 34 robbed postwar American art of an unusually creative practitioner and thinker. Smithson's pioneering earthworks and installations of the 1960s and '70s anticipated concerns with environmentalism and site-specific artistic production. Gary Shapiro's insightful study of Smithson's career is the first book to address the full range of the artist's dazzling virtuosity.