Tag: Montaigne

• December 7, 2011

  On the art of translation and a sense of a style

  On the Art of Translation. Of David Bellos’s Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (New York: Faber & Faber, 2011), a reviewer at The New Yorker observes, “In the English-speaking world, translation is mostly understood as [here quoting Bellos] ‘the transfer of meaning from one language to another,’ a sense derived…
• November 10, 2011

  Our arquebus moment

  A philosophical review of Saul Frampton’s When I Am Playing With My Cat, How Do I Know that She Is Not Playing with Me? Montaigne and Being in Touch with Life (New York: Random House, 2011). — The rending of man from nature first came with the flood. Before that, one must imagine a time of amity,…