My paper aims at laying out the main tenets of Patočka's unusual and highly provocative position with regard to the question of history, drawing essentially on his  Heretical Essays on the Philosophy of History, while also gathering insights from other works such as...

As is well known, a text is a speech act, namely the realisation and initiation of linguistic potentialities. Although a text can be described as an independent entity, it only becomes effective in concrete situations of use. One and the same linguistic product can...

George Steiner was a peerless scholar of literature and, with  After Babel, first published in 1975, he made an enormously significant contribution to the study of translation. The present volume assembles a dozen distinguished scholars of translation, all of whom...