翻译的跨文明转向:酒井直树的翻译共存机制及欧洲中心主义问题

Towards an Intercivilization Turn： Naoki Sakai＇ Cofigurative Regimes of Translation and the Problem of Eurocentrism

过去数年,翻译研究界就欧洲中心主义展开了热烈的争论,预示着继20世纪90年代＂文化转向＂及世纪之交＂社会学转向＂之后的新转向：翻译的跨文明转向。这一转向关注的重点不再是＂文明＂的＂中心＂,而是文明之间的交叉与联系。长期以来,东方主义被视为此类文明联系的思潮之一,而近年来涌现的西方主义则是与之抗衡的另一思潮。本文认为,翻译研究中的＂欧洲中心主义/东方主义＂及＂西方主义＂方法中诸多创新性的思想,均源自中国思想对西方思想家产生的影响。

The rather inflamed debate over Eurocentrism in translation studies over the past few years seems to be pointing to a new turn in TS, following on the cultural turn of the 1990s and the sociological turn of the 2000s： an intercivilizational turn, focused no longer on ＂ centers ＂ of ＂civilization＂ but the interstices and relationships between civilizations. Orientalism has long been one such intercivilizational relationship; Occidentalism has more recently been emerging as a rival to that. The article seeks to show that much of what we take to be most innovative in both the ＂Eurocentric＂/＂Orientalist＂ and the ＂Occidentalist＂ approaches to TS has emerged out of the influence of Chinese thought on Western thinkers.