Interepistemic Translation
Sense-Making Encounters Between "China" and the "West"
Interepistemic Translation
Sense-Making Encounters Between "China" and the "West"
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Douglas Robinson and Xiaorui Sun present a theory of interepistemic translation, or the encounters between different epistemic regimes of knowledge, as a new way of understanding gaps between knowledge paradigms, such as the historical tension between "East" and "West."
Interepistemic Translation offers a new perspective on understanding how we know, think, and act in the world around us. Robinson and Sun argue that “interepistemic translation," or translating between epistemic regimes, is commonplace. Metaphor and analogy are interepistemic translations. So is almost everything we do.
This book explores interepistemic translation and its foundational tensions through the example of how Chinese and Western culture – and the paradigm gaps between then – have been theorized in histories of science. The co-authors each present case studies from the 20th century. Robinson examines the thought of Thomas S. Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and his later work, and reads Neal Stephenson's future “China,” especially Shanghai, in the 1995 novel The Diamond Age. Sun engages the rhizomatic theory of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and draws from representations of China vis-à-vis Matteo Ricci, along with reading contemporary Shanghai and Qi theory from traditional Chinese medicine. Taken together, the examples demonstrate the bi-directional, multi-directional, and inter-directional translational work guiding how we perceive then read the world.
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Table of Contents
1. Interepistemic Translation and Transfer Theory: An Accommodation Douglas Robinson
Part I. The Kuhnian Legacy
2. Communal Interepistemic Translation: Charles Sanders Peirce and Thomas S. Kuhn on the Interepistemicity of Scientific Communities Douglas Robinson
3. The Past Is Another Country: The Problem of Translation and the Problem of Confucian Justice in a Future Shanghai Douglas Robinson
4. Embodiment as the Guidance System for (Inter)epistemicity: Mostly Kuhn on Aristotle, but with Some Chineseness Mixed In Douglas Robinson
5. The (Il)legal Affordances of Interepistemic Translation in Stephenson's Shanghai Douglas Robinson
Part II The Deleuzean Legacy
6. Preface to Part II: Rhizomatic Interepistemic Translation Xiaorui Sun
7. Rhizomatic Chineseness and Its Postmodern Implications for Interepistemic Translation Studies Xiaorui Sun
8. The Translational City of Shanghai: Cultural Hybridity or Ideological Incongruity? Xiaorui Sun
9. Hysterical Translation or Translator as Hysteric? Translationality and Rhizomaticity Between Deleuzean Affect Theory and the Qi Theory in TCM Xiaorui Sun
Postface: Möbius Heteronymous Interepistemic Metapseudotranslation Douglas Robinson and Xiaorui Sun
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Index
Product details
| Published | 15 Apr 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 9798216548942 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 5 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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