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※20世纪现象学代表性人物保罗·利科的大师之作
※从翻译学入手探讨主体性问题的重要阐释学文本
※附本雅明《译者的任务》新译本及长文导读，沟通学术史脉络，逐段细读本雅明。
内容简介：
本书由两部分组成。第一部分收录了保罗·利科的三篇探讨翻译相关问题的文章，作为当代阐释学的代表性学者，利科对于翻译的关注来自一种探索主体间理解可能性的本能。“阐释学建立在对言语的不理解之上。”而翻译的任务正是疏通其间种种障碍，使理解成为可能。因此对于利科而言，翻译不限于语间交际行为，也发生于语内甚至是语言于其他符号系统之间。第二部分收录了瓦尔特·本雅明名作《译者的任务》的新译本，并有译者长文导读。此译本以德语原文为准绳，同时参考该文法、英两种语言译本四种，力争在多语言的相互关照中逐渐贴近本雅明所言“重现纯语言”的翻译理想。
翻译是一场艰难的赌博，有时竟会无法为继。我先要用上些时间，讲述翻译中的困难。“考验”一词可以精准地概括这些困难，因着它有“受苦”和“检验”两重意思。就像人们所说的那样，经受一项计划、一个欲望，甚至是一种冲动的考验：翻译冲动。 ——保罗·利科 《翻译的挑战与幸福》

Paul Ricoeur was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. In this short and accessible book, he turns to a topic at the heart of much of his work: What is translation and why is it so important? Reminding us that The Bible, the Koran, the Torah and the works of the great philosophers are often only ever read in translation, Ricoeur reminds us that translation not only spreads knowledge but can change its very meaning. In spite of these risk, he argues that in a climate of ethnic and religious conflict, the art and ethics of translation are invaluable. Drawing on interesting examples such as the translation of early Greek philosophy during the Renaissance, the poetry of Paul Celan and the work of Hannah Arendt, he reflects not only on the challenges of translating one language into another but how one community speaks to another. Throughout, Ricoeur shows how to move through life is to navigate a world that requires translation itself. Paul Ricoeur died in 2005. He was one of the great contemporary French philosophers and a leading figure in hermeneutics, psychoanalytic thought, literary theory and religion. His many books include "Freud and" "Philosophy "and" Time and Narrative".

《活的隐喻》是法国著名哲学家保罗·利科继《意志哲学》和《历史与真理》之后的第三部主要著作，是关于隐喻的专著。全书由八篇论文组成，分别阐述了隐喻与符号学、修辞学、语义学、诗学和诠释学的关系与理论。作者系统介绍了从古希腊的亚里士多德、柏拉图以及西方近代哲学家海德格尔、维特根斯坦一直到现代语言学家对隐喻的看法，并从词汇、句子等不同角度对隐喻这一千古之谜作了深入细致的探讨。

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Paul Ricoeur is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished philosophers of our time. In "The Rule of Metaphor" he seeks "to show how language can extend itself to its very limits, forever discovering new resonances within itself". Recognizing the fundamental power of language in constructing the world we perceive, Ricoeur reveals the processes by which linguistic imagination creates and recreates meaning through metaphor. Taking further his acclaimed analysis of the power of myth and symbol, Ricoeur invites us to explore the many layers of language in order to rediscover what that meaning might be.