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Key Cultural Texts in Translation
Edited by Kirsten Malmkjær, Adriana Şerban and Fransiska Louwagie
[Benjamins Translation Library 140] 2018
► pp. 221–233

Chapter 13
Hegel’s Phenomenology

A comparative analysis of translatorial hexis

This article adapts Bourdieu’s theory of hexis as a basis for arguing that the Baillie (Hegel/Baillie 1910/1931) and Pinkard (Hegel/Pinkard 2008) translations of Hegel’s Die Phänomenologie des Geistes (Hegel 1807/1970) can be seen as textual objectifications and/or embodiments of different translatorial responses to the text, determined by the social and philosophical dynamics surrounding each translator. The concept of a “translatorial hexis” is analogous to Bourdieu’s habitus (Bourdieu 1977; Bourdieu 2012) but differs in that the translatorial hexis embodies a specifically dominant, honour-seeking stance of the philosopher-translator with regard to the micro-dynamics of the surrounding sub-fields. As the analysis shows, the translatorial hexis is objectified (Bourdieu 1986: 243) in the detail of the text and in the peritexts to the translations.
Keywords: Hegel’s Phenomenology , translatorial hexis , Bourdieu, philosophy translation
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction: Political philosophy and the translation of cultural capital
  • 2.The translator’s hexis as a theoretical starting point
  • 3.Baillie’s translations of Geist: A textual embodiment of translatorial hexis
  • 4.From Baillie to Pinkard: Terminological consistency as the new hexis
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 16 May 2018
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