Beyond Monolingualism: Philosophy as Translation and the Understanding of "Other" Cultures

Autor/in	Saito, Naoko
Titel	Beyond Monolingualism: Philosophy as Translation and the Understanding of "Other" Cultures
Quelle	In: Ethics and Education, 4 (2009) 2, S.131-139 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1744-9642
Schlagwörter	Translation; Cultural Awareness; Monolingualism; Philosophy; Foreign Culture; Patriotism; Educational Philosophy; Hermeneutics; Cultural Pluralism; Cultural Literacy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Philosophie; Fremdes; Patriotismus; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Hermeneutik; Kulturpluralismus
Abstract	Beyond a monolingual mentality and beyond the language that is typically observed in the prevalent discourse of education for understanding other cultures, this article tries to present another approach: Stanley Cavell's idea of "philosophy as translation." This Cavellian approach shows that understanding foreign cultures involves a relation to other cultures already within one's native culture. Foreshadowing the Cavellian sense of tragedy, Emerson's "Devil's child" helps us detect the sources of repression and blindness that are hidden behind the foundationalist approach to other cultures. The child represents the human condition in which the self and language are simultaneously in the process of translation. On the strength of this I propose a possibility of understanding other cultures that is crucially related to language education, one that can point us "beyond monolingualism." Cavell's view of language and the self envisions a way of releasing, not repressing, the desire to express one's inner light as a crucial source of the revival of one's native culture from within, while at the same time cultivating an eye for the other, the stranger, who is already here within oneself. This is to find "alterity" in the human condition in terms of the translation that is inherent to language and the immigrancy of the self. (Contains 1 note.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10