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Title	The translaborative case for a translational hermeneutics
Type	Journal article
Authors	Alfer, A.
Abstract	This paper takes the notion of translaboration as a stepping stone for an exploration of translational hermeneutics. It aims to expand translaboration’s focus beyond collaborations between multiple translators, or authors and translators, and theorises translaboration as a means of framing textual agents reading and writing each other within texts. The argument draws on Hans-Georg Gadamer’s and Paul Ricoeur’s conceptions of the interpretative agent, and of translation as an object of philosophical enquiry, and adopts a “hermeneutics of decipherment” (Maitland 2017, 38) as an alternative to dialogic models of understanding and translating. Similarly, the relationship between philosophical and translational hermeneutics is interrogated and recast as a translaborative endeavour rather than as an immediately reciprocal dialogue. Translaboration thus also furthers the move away from what Blumczynski (2016, 29) calls “an arborescent epistemological paradigm” of interdisciplinarity and animates a transdisciplinarity that is fundamentally “rhizomatic” (ibid.; see Deleuze and Guattari 2004) in nature.
Keywords	translation
	understanding
	subjectivity
	hermeneutics
	transdisciplinarity
	translaboration
Journal	Target
Journal citation	32 (2), pp. 261-281
ISSN	0924-1884
Year	2020
Publisher	John Benjamins
Accepted author manuscript	FINAL_Alfer_Translational Hermeneutics.pdf File Access Level Open (open metadata and files)
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1075/target.20105.alf
Published online	08 Jul 2020
Published in print	11 Sep 2020

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