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Large, Duncan 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6555-7334
(2023)
Translating the Vienna Circle.
Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice, 31 (1).
pp. 144-156.
ISSN 0907-676X
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Abstract
This article looks at the reception of logical positivism in the English-speaking world from the linguistic point of view. The inter-war Vienna Circle had a major impact on the development of English-language philosophy, but this was largely in the absence of published English translations. Many key essays appeared in English only well after the War, and the Circle’s 1929 manifesto ‘Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung: Der Wiener Kreis’ (The Scientific Conception of the World: The Vienna Circle) was first published in English translation as late as 1973. Before the rise of Nazism forced many of the key figures in the Vienna Circle to emigrate to Britain and the USA and begin lecturing and publishing in English, English-language philosophers like Ayer and Quine had studied logical positivism in Vienna. The article considers: the extent to which English-language philosophers were engaging with Vienna Circle ideas in German; the importance of popularisations of logical positivism by English-speaking philosophers; the history of English translations of Vienna Circle writings, and the nature of those translations. Finally, the role of translation within the philosophy of logical positivism itself is considered, and the overall contribution of Vienna Circle thinking to translation studies is assessed.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | vienna circle,logical positivism,logical empiricism,translation,philosophy,language and linguistics,3* ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200/1211 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > British Centre for Literary Translation Research Group Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Research Group |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Dec 2022 04:13 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jan 2024 01:40 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/90175 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0907676X.2022.2151922 |
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