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Tłumacz jako agent nie-czytania
The Translator as an Agent of Non-Reading

Author(s): Marta Bucholc
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology, History and theory of sociology
Published by: Wydział Socjologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: translation;reading;non-reading;academic sociology;

Summary/Abstract: This article is about problems related to translations in the social sciences and their circulation in the contemporary world. Drawing on Pierre Bayard’s concept of “non-reading”, the author reconstructs the ideal of scientific translation and analyses the ideological consequences of the orientation it produces in translators’ work and its impact on the creation of sociological knowledge and on the academic teaching of sociology in particular.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 337-354
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish