Critical Translation Studies

Douglas Robinson is Chair Professor of English at Hong Kong Baptist University. A scholar of language, literature, translation, and rhetoric, and a translator from Finnish to English since 1975, he is author most recently of Schleiermacher’s Icoses (Zeta Books, 2013), The Dao of Translation (Routledge, 2015), The Deep Ecology of Rhetoric in Mencius and Aristotle (SUNY Press, 2015), Semiotranslating Peirce (Tartu Semiotics Library, 2016), and Exorcising Translation (Bloomsbury, 2017), and editor of The Pushing Hands of Translation and its Theory (Routledge, 2016).

• Critical Theses on Translation 1: Sakai Circa 19971. Liu Reading Marx 2. The Double-Bind of Translation Quality Assessment Critical Theses on Translation 2: Sakai and Solomon Circa 2006 3. Walter Benjamin’s Intentions 4. What One Reads When One Reads Heidegger 5. The Socioecological Thought of Laozi and Mengzi Critical Theses on Translation 3: Solomon Circa 2014 Conclusion

'The book is interesting and illuminative. With a strong inclination to avoid misunderstandings between the Oriental and the Occidental, it can present fare dialogues among different cultures and seek a critical evaluation of translation studies in the past and the present.' -- LUO Xuanmin