Toward a General Hermeneutics
In the early nineteenth century Friedrich D. E. Schleiermacher rejected the specialized hermeneutics of medieval philosophy (that is, theological, juridical, […]
Category: translation
Scrivening
I have to say that I really like using Scrivener for translation! I’ve been using this app for almost two […]
An-Original Translation
Imagine being a historian of nineteenth-century Paris and your academic publisher demanding to see the original city before accepting your […]
The Circumscription of Triangles & Squares
Spirit/soul/life, pneuma/pysché/zoè or bios, spiritus/anima/vita, Geist/Seele/Leben—these are the triangles and squares in which we imprudently pretend to recognize stable semantic […]
Tyranny of the Text
WritingThe irony is that in the year that I’ve written the most, I’ve blogged the least. You would think that […]
In the Trees
Here’s a photo of me with my head literally in the trees. The clouds would’ve been too easy, too cliched. […]
Oblivion Oblivion Oblivion
This spring I read the collection of short stories entitled The Cannibal Night by Mexican author Luis Jorge Boone, expertly […]
#Cities
When I was an undergraduate in the late 1980s, I wrote a series of extremely short narratives that I called […]
Early-Bird Gothic
wczesno-ptasi gotykuWho dare writes such a magical phrase?!?! And it confounds me why those other translators have rendered this line […]
Translation’s Haunt (The Rolle Excursus), Part II
When we examine Rolle’s practice in the Name of Jesus cult through the lens of medieval Christograms, we arrive at […]
