Towards an Intercivilizational Turn: Naoki Sakai's cofigurative regimes of translation and the problem of Eurocentrism. Issue 1 (2nd January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Robinson, Douglas
• Is Part Of: Translation studies. Volume 9:Issue 1(2016)
• Page Start: 51
• Page End: 66
• Publication Date: 2016-01-02
• Subjects: Eurocentrism -- civilizational spells -- Orientalism -- Occidentalism -- cofiguration; Translating and interpreting -- Periodicals; 418.0205
• DOI: 10.1080/14781700.2015.1084591
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1478-1700

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The rather inflamed debate over Eurocentrism in Translation Studies over the past few years seems to be pointing to a new Turn in TS, following on the Cultural Turn of the 1990s and the Sociological Turn of the 2000s: an Intercivilizational Turn, focused no longer on "centers" of "civilization" but the interstices and relationships between civilizations. Orientalism has long been one such intercivilizational relationship; Occidentalism has more recently been emerging as a rival to that. The article seeks to show that much of what we take to be most innovative in both the "Eurocentric"/"Orientalist" and the "Occidentalist" approaches to TS has emerged out of the influence of Chinese thought on Western thinkers.