Figures of Motion, Figures of Being: Translation, Diaspora, and the Song of Parmenides
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Figures of Motion, Figures of Being: Translation, Diaspora, and the Song of Parmenides
Yazar:
Spitzer, David Morgan, author.
ISBN:
9780355941760
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1 electronic resource (413 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Jeffner Allen Committee members: Rosemary Arrojo; Jeroen Gerrits; Benjamin Paloff; Anthony Preus.
Özet:
Two paths of inquiry, translation and diaspora, guide "Figures of Motion, Figures of Being: Translation, Diaspora, and the Song of Parmenides" towards the Parmenidean poem, a work of dactylic hexameter from the late sixth or early fifth century composed in the Greek community Elea in southwestern Italy. Intervening on the assumption operative in much philosophic reception of the early Greek philosophers that the thinking manifest in the "fragments"---and by extension that thought per se---is essentially ahistorical, "Figures of Motion, Figures of Being" asks: what new features of the Parmenidean poem become visible when seen as developing within a matrix of translation, diaspora, and trauma?
Along the first path the first four chapters unfold as (1) a history of archaic Greek thinking rendered as a history of translation in the forms of transmission and adaptation (of forms), reception and interpretation (of thought), and interlingual translation; (2) a disclosure of the ways translation, in the form of textualization of an oral poem, both produces and reinforces a twofold doctrine of ontological unity and stasis; (3) a new translation of the poem that attempts to activate some of the tensions at work when the poem is thought in its context of oralcy; (4) a threefold theoretics of this translation.
Diaspora, the second path of inquiry, orients the final chapter, though it converges with the path of translation in many places. In three main sections chapter five situates the Parmenidean poem into a historical field of forced migration under political and military threat posed by the advancing Persian empire in the mid-sixth century on the eastern shore of the Aegean Sea. The poem emerges through this path of inquiry, developed through literary, cultural, and historical contexts, as a literature of diaspora, registering the trauma of forced migration and violent division of a community through an indirectness characteristic of certain traumatic writing. In its broadest intent and movements this project seeks a reciprocal, rather than subordinate, relation between thinking and place. That is, this intervention moves to challenge the root division of the noetic and somatic planes of human life.
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School code: 0792
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