2021
Cognition and Comprehension in Translational Hermeneutics
Douglas Robinson
Pages 169-204
The 心 of the Foreign
The Feeling-Based Hermeneutics of Translation as Influenced by Ancient Chinese Thought
This paper tracks the influence wielded by ancient Chinese thought on not only the German Romantics but on dissident Western thought coming out of Renaissance esotericism into the “dark side” of the Enlightenment (the so-called “Endarkenment”), with the idea that tracing that history of intercivilizational influence may help us identify some strands of German Romantic theories of translation that have hitherto been overlooked, and to bring a better adapted analytical framework to bear on those theories.