Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Who Translates?
Preliminary Questions • Channeling • Rationalism, Pre- and Post-• Part One: The Spirit-channeling Model • Part Two: Ideology • Part Three: Transient Assemblies
PART ONE: THE SPIRIT-CHANNELING MODEL
1. Reason and Spirit
The Translator as Spirit-channel • "Reason"? "Spirit"? • Logologies of Reason and Spirit
2. The Divine Inspiration of Translation
A Short History of Spirit-channeling • Socrates and the Art of the Rhapsode • Philo and Augustine on the Legend of the Septuagint • Joseph Smith and The Book of Mormon • Paul on Glossolalia and Interpreting
PART TWO: IDEOLOGY
3. Ideology and Cryptonymy
Logology of Ideology • Heidegger on Spirit • Cryptonymy: Abraham/Torok and Freud • Heidegger's Crypt • First Translation • Second Translation • Third Translation
4. The (Ideo)logic of Spectrality
Shakespeare's Permission • (In)visibilizing Lear • Marx and Schleiermacher on Spirits and Ghosts
PART THREE: TRANSIENT ASSEMBLIES
5. The Pandemonium Self
Rationalist and Postrationalist Theories of the Self • Lacan's Schema L • Pandemonium • The Invisible Subject • The Translator's Objects • Fidus interpres and the Double Bind
6. The Invisible Hand
Invisible and Hidden Hands • Translation Agencies
Conclusion: Beyond Reason
Works Cited
Index