Cultural Universals and Particulars

Conceptual decolonisation, translation and political consensus. Examine how a philosophical question changes when it is framed in another language.

Indiana University Press paperback, 1997; ISBN 9780253210807

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• Which assumptions enter a philosophical question through its language?

  coreIntroduction or preface and opening chapter. Record the edition and translator before reading.

  Conceptual decolonisation, translation and political consensus. Examine how a philosophical question changes when it is framed in another language.

• Which assumptions enter a philosophical question through its language?

  coreComplete main text; the sequential locations below cover the whole work.

  Conceptual decolonisation, translation and political consensus. Examine how a philosophical question changes when it is framed in another language.

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Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.

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