From the conference, ‘Translating and editing Max Weber: experiences, insights and irritations’, on the occasion of the one hundred and fiftieth birthday of Max Weber, organised by Johannes Weiss and Wilfried Nippel, at Max-WeberKolleg, Erfurt, July 2-4, 2014.
關鍵詞
Max Weber; Hinduism; bhakti; karman; intercultural comparison and translation; world view; world relations/relationships to the world
摘要
Weber’s Comparative Essays on the Sociology of Religion raise the problem of intercultural translation, still insufficiently attended to in discussions of Weber’s work. This article discusses questions of translation in the context of his concept of world relations and with respect to his representation of Hinduism. Weberian sociology of religion has established a schematic classification of world religions in terms of world views and attitudes towards the world. the article contends that a relationship to the world comprises phenomenological, hermeneutic, and practical ethical aspects. it criticizes Weber’s textualist reading of Hindu religions and his neglect of the interpretive capacities of groups in India embedded and living in the world. the article demonstrates the implications of this neglect for intercultural translation and understanding taking the examples of karma theory and of world-affirming attitudes of bhakti.
目次
Abstract 211 How and what do we translate as social scientists? 212 Worldview and relationships to the world 213 Karma and bhakti 217 Karma 217 Bhakti 221 Bibliography 226
