Stanley Cavell and Philosophy as Translation by Paul Standish

Stanley Cavell and Philosophy as Translation by Paul Standish

This book explores the idea of translation as a philosophical theme and as an important feature of philosophy and practical life, in the context of a searching examination of aspects of the work of Stanley Cavell. Furthermore it demonstrates the broader significance of these philosophical questions for education and life as a whole.

Thoreau’s observation that truth requires the departure or translation from the “monuments” constituted by our words provides the theme of this probing collectionCharting paths to and from Cavell’s own words in The Senses of Walden, these fine essays consider translation and the untranslatable, Cavell’s notions of the ordinary and of speaking out of a sense of impoverishment, and writers from Emerson to Terrence Malick. -- Russell B. Goodman, Regents Professor, Emeritus, University of New Mexico
Saito and Standish are full-fledged masters of bringing the best excitement of living philosophical conversation in book form. Provoked by an enlarged sense of translation as more than decoding and of education as more than classroom learning, these essays bring us to feel that, as Cavell might say, we mostly use those words without meaning what we are saying. In an age when the simply practical or instrumental is in ascendence, this international collection is an event which will arrest resignation, recalling us to philosophy's and education's significance as existential transfiguration. -- Gordon C.F. Bearn, Professor of Philosophy, Lehigh University, USA
There is an important sense in which a demand for translation is internal to all thought and, by the same token, an important sense in which translation should be regarded as a topic for, and dimension of, philosophical investigation. That is organizing claim of Naoko Saito and Paul Standish’s brilliant new collection Stanley Cavell and Philosophy as Translation. The book offers something substantial not only to those committed to following philosophical conversations about themes of translation but also to those committed to exploring these conversations’ practical upshot. It makes an especially focused contribution to discussions of education as an enterprise that, far from being merely technical and problem-oriented, is capable of opening us to the ineluctable demand to exercise our own judgment in thinking. -- Alice Crary, Chair of Philosophy, New School for Social Research

Naoko Saito is Associate Professor of Education at Kyoto University, Japan. Her publications include The Gleam of Light: Moral Perfectionism and Education in Dewey and Emerson (2005).

Paul Standish is Professor of Philosophy of Education and Head of the Centre for Philosophy and Education at UCL Institute of Education, UK. His many publications include The Therapy of Education (2007), co-authored with Paul Smeyers and Richard Smith, and The Philosophy of Nurse Education (2007), co-edited with John Drummond. With Naoko Saito he has also co-edited Stanley Cavell and the Education of Grownups (2012) and Education and the Kyoto School of Philosophy: Pedagogy for Human Transformation (2012). He was previously Editor of the Journal of Philosophy of Education and is Chair Elect of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain.

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ISBN 13	9781786602893
ISBN 10	178660289X
Title	Stanley Cavell and Philosophy as Translation
Author	Paul Standish
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2017-02-28
Number of pages	204
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