Why Concepts Matter: Translating Social and Political Thought

Martin J. Burke (Ph.D., Michigan, ’87) is a Professor of History at CUNY. He is author of The Conundrum of Class: Public Discourse on the Social Order in America, and executive co-editor of The Journal of the History of Ideas. Melvin Richter (Ph.D., Harvard, ‘53) is an Emeritus Professor of Political Science at CUNY. Among his many works are The History of Political and Social Concepts: an Introduction, and The Meaning of Historical Terms and Concepts: New Studies on Begriffsgeschichte.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Translation, the History of Concepts and the History of Political Thought, Melvin Richter A Translation Studies Perspective on the Translation of Political Concepts,Jeremy MundayOn History in Formal Conceptualizations of Translation,Anthony Pym Reinhart Koselleck on Translation, Anachronism and Conceptual Change,Kari PalonenTranslation as Cultural Transfer and Semantic Interaction: European Variations of liberal between 1800 and 1830,Jörn LeonhardBodin as Self-Translator of his Republique: Why the Omission of “Politique” and Allied Terms from the Latin Version?, Mario Turchetti Translation as Correction: Hobbes in the 1660s and 1670, Eric Nelson Translating the Turks, Peter Burke Translating the Vocation of Man: Liang Qichao (1873–1929), J. G. Fichte, and the Body Politic in Early Republican China, Joachim KurtzThe Public Limits of Liberty: Nakamura Keiu’s Translation of J. S. Mill, Douglas Howland On Translating Durkheim, Steven LukesTranslating Weber, Keith Tribe Select Bibliography Index

Wanneer inzichten uit [de] drie disciplines […] geschiedenis van het politieke denken, vertaalwetenschap en begripsgeschiedenis […] met elkaar gecombineerd worden, levert dat innovatieve en verfrissende interpretaties op. Dat wordt accuraat geïllustreerd in de uitstekende en warm aan te bevelen bundel studies die tot stand kwam onder redactie van Martin Burke en Melvin Richter Why Concepts Matter. Translating Social and Political Thought.Erik de Bom, Filter. Tijdschrift over vertalen, Vol. 19, No. 4 (December 2012), pp. 41-42