Beyond the Untranslatable

Talal Asad is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA.Jun’ichi Isomae is a Professor Emeritus at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Japan.Naoki Sakai is a Distinguished Professor of Asian Studies Emeritus at Cornell University, USA.Katsuya Hirano is a Professor of Global Engagement at Kansai Gaidai University, Japan.Gouranga Charan Pradhan is a Lecturer at ZEN University, Japan.

• Contents List of Figures List of Contributors Preface Jun’ichi Isomae, Katsuya Hirano and Gouranga Charan Pradhan Introduction: On the Heritage of Postcolonial Studies: Translation of the Untranslatable Talal Asad Part 1: Translating the Untranslatable 1. Translating the Untranslatable: Inheritance of the Postcolonial Studies Jun’ichi Isomae 2. Politics of Translation in East Asia: Natsume Sōseki and his Idea of Untranslatability Gouranga Charan Pradhan 3. How to Count Languages; How to Classify Humanity Naoki Sakai Part 2: Ambivalent Power of Translations 4. What Is It to Be Secular? Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 5. Settler-Colonial Translation: “Civilization” and the Ainu Voice Katsuya Hirano 6. Translating God(s): Religious Studies After the Postcolonial Moment Hent de Vries 7. China and the Conditions of Spatial Revolution: Twentieth-Century China as an Object of Thought Wang Hui Part 3: Round Table: Translating the Untranslatable 8. Round Table: Translating the Untranslatable Talal Asad, Marion Eggert, Ayako Kusunoki, Naoki Sakai, Gayatri Spivak, Hent de Vries, Katsuya Hirano, Manami Yasui, Jun’ichi Isomae (Yoshiaki Mihara, Gouranga Charan Pradhan, Norimasa Fujimoto and Kazuma Omura., eds) Epilogue: Reflections on the Question of Untranslatability Jun’ichi Isomae and Gouranga Charan Pradhan Index