Clio's Cousins: Historiography as Translation, Fiction, and Criticism
1976; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 7; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/468505
ISSN1080-661X
Autores Tópico(s)Philosophy, History, and Historiography
ResumoSpeaking is translating-from a language of angels into human language, that is, translating thoughts into words, things into names, images into signs. Whatever its value for a general theory of verbal communication, Johann Georg Hamann's fanciful proposition of 1762 suggests an instructive perspective on historiography.1 The historian tends to see his evidence as mainly consisting of original texts. Yet all documents at his disposal, as well as the very work he is engaged in writing, are translations in this enhanced sense of the word: they are verbal accounts of the largely nonverbal fabric of historical events. To the extent that the historian
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