The Translatability of Cultures
The Translatability of Cultures

Summary/Abstract: The present day is not a time for scholars who, like sociologists, are trying to develop theories of the middle range or who, like historians, want to apply the lessons from the recent past to the present. Our age, which has given a new and pathos-ridden meaning to the word “change”, is longing either for eternal truth or for those interview statements that just slip off the tongue, to be forgotten immediately after the commercial break. For once, social scientists and novelists find themselves in the same boat, one too slow to gain the attention of the breathless public. This is a time for prophets and for priests who stick to their faith and for reporters who are not supposed to have any.

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