인지적 대응에서 느끼는 상응으로－과정철학의 번역론－

Abstract

This article is an attempt to define translation in terms of process philosophical tradition including works of A.N. Whitehead. If many interpreters place process tradition between the objectivist and the subjectivist philosophical traditions, how can we construe translation activities from the standpoint of process view? As Whitehead postulates necessity of his speculative philosophy against abstraction, many translators stress necessity of constitute interpretive context or generalization of the tradition. According to them Otherwise we cannot properly place the notion in the tradition and fail to translate them in the proper context. I also argue constitutive, heuristic method is needed for the understanding and translating texts. I also discuss recent debates over usefulness of tradition or context in understanding and translating Chinese texts. I also argue in translation what we convey is feelings, intention, respond of the imagined author-receptor rather cognitive appearance. For successful translation, there should be felt equivalences between source texts and target texts rather than correspondence of the characters. I tried to explain this by using ideas of proposition, symbolic reference, presentational immediacy, causal efficacy, and lure for feeling in the Whitehead’s organic philosophy. At the end of article, I try to conclude that according to process view, translation as aesthetic activities and felt equivalence can be understood as the lure for engagement in the transitive and communicative process of human generations for richer and continuous civilization.