Untranslating Machines - A Genealogy for the Ends of Global Thought (Paperback)

On what basis can we establish an alternative to the unifying of cultures brought about by economic globalization? When ideas, like objects and words, can be translated and marketed everywhere, what forms of critique are available? Straddling the fields of political philosophy, comparative literature, animal studies, global studies, and political economy, Untranslating Machines proposes to this end a weakened, defective concept of "untranslatability." The analytic frame of Jacques Lezra's argument is rooted in Marx, Derrida and Wittgenstein. He moves historically from the moment when "translation" becomes firmly wed to mercantilism and to the consolidation of proto-national state forms, in European early modernity; to the current moment, in which the flow of information, commodities and value-creation protocols among international markets produces the regulative fantasy of a global, coherent market of markets. In a world in which translation and translatability have become a means and a model for the consolidation of a global cultural system, this book proposes an understanding of untranslatability that serves to limit the articulation between a globalized capitalist value-system and the figure and techniques of translation.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	New Critical Humanities
Release date:	April 2019
Authors:	Jacques Lezra
Dimensions:	222 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	222
ISBN-13:	978-1-78661-089-8
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Globalization Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
LSN:	1-78661-089-2
Barcode:	9781786610898

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!