" A book about this action discusses musical settings that undercut their texts in its last section, "Topologies of Culture."
At the beginning of Part 3 of Truth and Method, this action is first considered as the opposite of "understanding," but then as exemplifying a "hermeneutical conversation." A book about this action discusses musical settings that undercut their texts in its last section, "Topologies of Culture." That book about this action begins by analyzing how a contemporary audience-member could possibly have understood a monologue from Cymbeline. Another text on this action ends with a discussion of Hölderlin, noting that great texts like the Bible always contain the (*) potentiality of this action. That essay about this action begins by claiming that "No poem is intended for the reader," so that this art form does not serve a literary work, but rather demonstrates the kinship and foreignness of languages themselves. This action is the subject of a Walter Benjamin essay about the "Task" of those who do it, and George Steiner's After Babel. For 10 points, name this action written about by practitioners like George Chapman, who noted the difficulty of turning Homer's hexameters into good English.
At the beginning of Part 3 of Truth and Method, this action is first considered as the opposite of "understanding," but then as exemplifying a "hermeneutical conversation.
translation [accept word forms like translating or translator; accept "The Task of the Translator"]