Edited by Stephanie Schwerter and Jennifer K. Dick Transmissibility and Cultural Transfer:
Dimensions of Translation in the Humanities brings together monumental voices in the social
sciences-such as Jean-René Ladmiral from Paris and Peter Caws from Washington DC-to begin to
address the Humanities' specific issues with and debt to translation. Calling for a
re-examination of how translations are read critiqued and taught in Philosophy History
Political Science and Sociology departments this book provides tools for reflection bases for
reconsideration of given translations and historical observations on how thought has been
shaped across national borders. The volume ends with four case studies-examples from
auto-translation in postcolonial literature cultural issues of translation in Chinese-language
cinema negotiating meaning between linguistically and culturally different audiences in the
United States and Lebanon to verbal-visual questions of translation in marketing to German and
French clients. All in all this book is a comprehensive compact survey of the cultural and
linguistic translation and transmission issues in the social sciences today. Transmissibility
and Cultural Transfer: Dimensions of Translation in the Humanities is illuminating and
informative. A great tool for study or debate.
