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Aporias of Translation

Literature, Philosophy, Education

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Authors:
  1. Elias Schwieler

    1. Department of Education, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

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  • Presents translation as a new way to read texts
  • Develops the notion of aporia in relation to important theoretical and literary texts
  • Explores Education as aporia

Part of the book series: Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education (COPT, volume 18)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Elias Schwieler
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Education of Death

    • Elias Schwieler
    Pages 15-37

  4. “The Supreme Exertion of Thinking”: Censorship, Critique, and Education

    • Elias Schwieler
    Pages 39-70

  5. Toward a Notion of Aporetic Thinking: Translation, Culture, and Critical Thinking

    • Elias Schwieler
    Pages 71-98

  6. The Nature of Learning and the Aporia of “Words”

    • Elias Schwieler
    Pages 99-119

  7. The Aporias of Translation in Poetry and Aesthetic Education: Reading John Ashbery

    • Elias Schwieler
    Pages 121-141

  8. The Aporia of Teaching: Translating the Other

    • Elias Schwieler
    Pages 143-167

  9. Coda: Aporia and the Excess of Translation and Education

    • Elias Schwieler
    Pages 169-175
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About this book

This book proposes a new way for scholars in, for example, Education, Literary Studies, and Philosophy to approach texts and other phenomena through the concept and practice of translation. Its interdisciplinary perspective makes the book of value for graduate students and scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The unique take on translation as related to the notion of aporia is applied to a number of seminal and classical texts within literature, poetry, and philosophy, which gives the reader new understandings of the workings of language and what happens within and between languages, as well as within and between disciplines, when some form of interpretation or analysis is at work. Importantly, the book develops the notion of aporias of translation as a way to learn and develop our understanding of texts and phenomena, and thus functions as a pedagogical process, which helps us come to terms with the boundaries of language and academic disciplines.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Education, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

    Elias Schwieler

About the author

Elias Schwieler has a PhD in English literature and holds a position as Associate Professor in the Department of Education at Stockholm University, Sweden. His most recent scholarly work include the book Heidegger on Literature, Poetry, and Education: At the Limits of Metaphysics, published with Routledge (2017), and co-authored with James M. Magrini, College of DuPage, US, and the journal article “Evolving Bildung: Streaming Media, Art, and Technology” forthcoming in Popular Communication, co-authored with Niclas Ekberg, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden.

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