Why Concepts Matter
Translating Social and Political Thought
Edited by Martin J. Burke and Melvin Richter, The City Univerity of New York (CUNY)
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Biographical note
Martin J. Burke (Ph.D., Michigan, ’87) is a Professor of History at CUNY. He is author of The Conundrum of Class: Public Discourse on the Social Order in America, and executive co-editor of The Journal of the History of Ideas.
Melvin Richter (Ph.D., Harvard, ‘53) is an Emeritus Professor of Political Science at CUNY. Among his many works are The History of Political and Social Concepts: an Introduction, and The Meaning of Historical Terms and Concepts: New Studies on Begriffsgeschichte.
Melvin Richter (Ph.D., Harvard, ‘53) is an Emeritus Professor of Political Science at CUNY. Among his many works are The History of Political and Social Concepts: an Introduction, and The Meaning of Historical Terms and Concepts: New Studies on Begriffsgeschichte.
Readership
Specialists, M.A. and Ph.D. students in: Political Science (esp. the History of Political Thought), History of the Social Sciences, Conceptual History, the History of Ideas, and Translation Studies. Academic libraries.
Reviews
Wanneer inzichten uit [de] drie disciplines […] geschiedenis van het politieke denken, vertaalwetenschap en begripsgeschiedenis […] met elkaar gecombineerd worden, levert dat innovatieve en verfrissende interpretaties op. Dat wordt accuraat geïllustreerd in de uitstekende en warm aan te bevelen bundel studies die tot stand kwam onder redactie van Martin Burke en Melvin Richter Why Concepts Matter. Translating Social and Political Thought.
Erik de Bom, Filter. Tijdschrift over vertalen, Vol. 19, No. 4 (December 2012), pp. 41-42
Erik de Bom, Filter. Tijdschrift over vertalen, Vol. 19, No. 4 (December 2012), pp. 41-42
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Translation, the History of Concepts and the History of Political Thought, Melvin Richter
A Translation Studies Perspective on the Translation of Political Concepts,Jeremy Munday
On History in Formal Conceptualizations of Translation,Anthony Pym
Reinhart Koselleck on Translation, Anachronism and Conceptual Change,Kari Palonen
Translation as Cultural Transfer and Semantic Interaction: European Variations of liberal between 1800 and 1830,Jörn Leonhard
Bodin as Self-Translator of his Republique: Why the Omission of “Politique” and Allied Terms from the Latin Version?, Mario Turchetti
Translation as Correction: Hobbes in the 1660s and 1670, Eric Nelson
Translating the Turks, Peter Burke
Translating the Vocation of Man: Liang Qichao (1873–1929), J. G. Fichte, and the Body Politic in Early Republican China, Joachim Kurtz
The Public Limits of Liberty: Nakamura Keiu’s Translation of J. S. Mill, Douglas Howland
On Translating Durkheim, Steven Lukes
Translating Weber, Keith Tribe
Select Bibliography
Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Translation, the History of Concepts and the History of Political Thought, Melvin Richter
A Translation Studies Perspective on the Translation of Political Concepts,Jeremy Munday
On History in Formal Conceptualizations of Translation,Anthony Pym
Reinhart Koselleck on Translation, Anachronism and Conceptual Change,Kari Palonen
Translation as Cultural Transfer and Semantic Interaction: European Variations of liberal between 1800 and 1830,Jörn Leonhard
Bodin as Self-Translator of his Republique: Why the Omission of “Politique” and Allied Terms from the Latin Version?, Mario Turchetti
Translation as Correction: Hobbes in the 1660s and 1670, Eric Nelson
Translating the Turks, Peter Burke
Translating the Vocation of Man: Liang Qichao (1873–1929), J. G. Fichte, and the Body Politic in Early Republican China, Joachim Kurtz
The Public Limits of Liberty: Nakamura Keiu’s Translation of J. S. Mill, Douglas Howland
On Translating Durkheim, Steven Lukes
Translating Weber, Keith Tribe
Select Bibliography
Index
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