IACSIACSInt'l Academy for Consciousness Studies
School of Language · A course at IACS

The Remainder in Translation

What gets lost, what exceeds every translation

Quine argued that even a perfect bilingual speaker could never prove two languages' sentences mean exactly the same thing. Steiner mapped translation as a four-step act of trust, aggression, incorporation, and restitution. This course reads real translation theory through the Academy's own Remainder, what every act of carrying meaning across a border leaves behind.

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