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When Hermes handed over to Apollo his finest invention, the lyre,
in exchange for promotion to the status of messenger of the gods,
he relinquished the creativity that gave life to his words. The
trade-off proved frustrating: Hermes chafed under the obligation to
deliver the ideas and words of others and resorted to all manner of
ruses in order to assert his presence in the messages he
transmitted. His theorizing descendants, too, allow their
pretentions to creatorship to interfere with the actual business of
reinventing originals in another language. Just as the Hermes of
old delighted in leading the traveller astray, so his descendants
lead their acolytes, through thickets of jargon, into labyrinths of
eloquence without substance. Charles Le Blanc possesses the
philosophical tools to dismantle this empty eloquence: he exposes
the inconsistencies, internal contradictions, misreadings, and
misunderstandings rife in so much of the current academic discourse
en translation, and traces the failings of this discourse back to
its roots in the anguish of having traded authentic creativity for
mere status.
This collection of twenty-one articles represents some of the major
writings by one of the United States' leading Sinologists, Derk
Bodde. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library
uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
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Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
This collection of twenty-one articles represents some of the
major writings by one of the United States' leading Sinologists,
Derk Bodde.
Originally published in 1982.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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++++ Catalogue De L'oeuvre De Robert Strange, Graveur: Avec Une
Notice Biographique; Graveur En Taille Douce; Charles Le Blanc
Charles Le Blanc, Sir Robert Strange R. Weigel, 1848 Engravers;
Engraving; Engraving, Scottish
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