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SUMMARY:CTIS | Research Seminar
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DESCRIPTION:Translation as Circumspection: Or how I learned to stop worry
 ing and love Heidegger\n\nIt is common in Translation Studies to worry a
  lot about theory. A perennial question from students and scholars alike
  is how exactly theory relates to practice. While I do not doubt that th
 eory can help in understanding translation\, my aim in this talk is to r
 eassess the role that theory actually does (and can) play in day-to-day 
 practice. Drawing on the work of the existential philosopher Martin Heid
 egger\, I will argue that much thinking about theory in Translation Stud
 ies is grounded in the idea\, common in western thought since Plato\, th
 at the way human beings relate to things is to have an implicit theory a
 bout them. This view\, I propose\, is mistaken. I will argue that most o
 f the time\, translation is grounded in ‘unthinking comportment’\, rathe
 r than conscious decision making\, and in ‘absorbed circumspection’ rath
 er than objective observation. Theory\, on the other hand\, constitutes 
 a special kind of knowing and looking at things which\, while valuable\,
  differs markedly from the normal\, everyday way of seeing and acting. T
 his idea has significant implications for how we conceptualise what theo
 ry can\, and cannot\, do for both Translation Studies and the practice o
 f translation.
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