Stanley Cavell and Philosophy as Translation

Naoko Saito is Associate Professor of Education at Kyoto University, Japan. Her publications include The Gleam of Light: Moral Perfectionism and Education in Dewey and Emerson (2005).Paul Standish is Professor of Philosophy of Education and Head of the Centre for Philosophy and Education at UCL Institute of Education, UK. His many publications include The Therapy of Education (2007), co-authored with Paul Smeyers and Richard Smith, and The Philosophy of Nurse Education (2007), co-edited with John Drummond. With Naoko Saito he has also co-edited Stanley Cavell and the Education of Grownups (2012) and Education and the Kyoto School of Philosophy: Pedagogy for Human Transformation (2012). He was previously Editor of the Journal of Philosophy of Education and is Chair Elect of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain.

Thoreau’s observation that truth requires the departure or translation from the “monuments” constituted by our words provides the theme of this probing collection. Charting paths to and from Cavell’s own words in The Senses of Walden, these fine essays consider translation and the untranslatable, Cavell’s notions of the ordinary and of speaking out of a sense of impoverishment, and writers from Emerson to Terrence Malick.

• 1. Introduction Paul Standish and Naoko Saito / 2. Philosophy as Translation and the Realism of the Obscure Naoko Saito / 3. Stanley Cavell, the Ordinary, and the Democratization of Culture(s) Sandra Laugier / 4. Speaking Out of a Sense of Our Impoverishment Vincent Colapietro / 5.Rebuking Hopelessness Paul Standish / 6. From Radical Translation to Radical Translatability: Education in an Age of Internationalization Joris Vlieghe / 7. Problems in Translation Ian Munday /8. Pragmatism and the Language of Suffering: from James to Rorty (and Orwell) and back again Sami Pihlström / 9. Communication as Translation: Reading Dewey After Cavell Megan J. Laverty / 10. The Strange in the Familiar: Education’s Encounter with Untranslatables Claudia Ruitenberg / 11. Immigrancy of the Self, Continuing Education: Recollection in Cavell’s Little Did I Know and Terrence Malick’s ‘The Tree of Life’ Naoko Saito / 12. The Philosophy of Pawnbroking Paul Standish / Notes on contributors / Index