Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
@UssamaMakdisi "Edward Said might best be understood as a translator...” @chebhosine. I suspect that in the tension of allegedly mutually exclusive categories like ‘East’, 'West,’ 'Arab' and 'Jew', he and George Steiner would, together, have proved central to bridging a common path to peace.
Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 30 Aug 2022
@noonessleep George Steiner spoke of "the honest treason of the comparatist, the translator; a persistent infidelity to any one tradition, culture or community of recognition." Ultimately, the greater assimilative space of a planetary prophetology? Hillman: "Words, like angels, are powers."
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