Brian O’Keeffe
Biographic Data
| ID | 8552962 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian O’Keeffe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | O’Keeffe |
| SIGNATURE | O’KEEFFE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Barnard College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Zur Ereignishaftigkeit von Übersetzungen
Ton Naaikens zufolge "there is a strong case to award translations the status of event" (Naaijkens 2008: 311).Paradoxerweise sttzt sich diese starke Aussage auf eine scheinbar eher schwache Behauptung, nmlich
The Events and Non-Events of Translation
The aim of this essay is to gain critical and theoretical purchase on the notion of an “event” as it may or may not relevantly apply to the practices of translation. The essay allows itself to be quizzical as regards the possibility that translation can be called an event at all, but it also inspects the ways in which, nonetheless, it is meaningful – and indeed useful – to consider the eventhood, or eventuality of translation. In that regard, I …
On the Eventful Nature of Translations
Translation Before the Law
This essay examines how American scholars, lawyers and judges in¬terpret the Constitution. Discussed is how anxieties arise in view of interpretations deemed to be too free to serve the interests of law, and how the solution to that putative hermeneutic freedom is an imposition of interpretive rules. But those rules are profiled in terms of an appeal to “fidelity,” and that appeal is relayed to the topic of translation. My essay offers a critical…
Speculations – On Translation
Review essay of: von der Osten, Esther / Sauter, Caroline [eds.] (2023): Was ist eine “relevante” Übersetzung? Arbeiten mit Derrida. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. 186 pp. ISBN: 978-3-8376-5678-7
Translation, Gadamer, and the Hermeneutical Perspective
It is a truism," writes Beata Piecychna in The Hermeneutics of Translation, "to say that in order to translate a text, the translator must understand and interpret it" (p.43).It's indeed a truism, and therefore she is surely right to wonder, in this thoughtful and sophisticated book, why hermeneutics has been relatively neglected by translation studies.After all, the objective of hermeneutics is to elucidate the act of interpretation itself, and …
Schleiermacher’s Hermeneutics
French renderings of Friedrich Schleiermacher's writings devoted to hermeneutics and textual criticism. Dating from 1805 to 1830, some of these writings are relatively well-elaborated texts, whereas others are more disparate lecture notes and transcriptions
Afro-Creole Poetry in French from Louisiana’s Radical Civil War-Era Newspapers
Reviewed by: Afro-Creole Poetry in French from Louisiana’s Radical Civil War-Era Newspapers: A Bilingual Edition by Clint Bruce Brian O’Keeffe Clint Bruce. Afro-Creole Poetry in French from Louisiana’s Radical Civil War-Era Newspapers: A Bilingual Edition. New Orleans: The Historic New Orleans Collection, 2020. 364 pp. $40.00. This handsome volume presents seventy-nine poems composed by francophone Afro-Creole writers during the Civil War era. Tr…
George Steiner’s Legacy
How much world a word contains, probably no one
Engaging with Translation. New Readings of George Steiner’s After Babel
George Steiners Vermächtnis
obachter" wrdigt (zit
George Steiner’s Metaphors for Translation
George Steiner’s After Babel contains many riches, and many of these can be found in the chapter “The Hermeneutic Motion”. But that chapter has its challenges and vexing provocations, and it therefore merits critical commentary. At issue, I argue, is the problematic elaboration of various metaphors for translation and a certain laxity in argument that is covered over by the fineness of Steiner’s writing style. The purpose of this essay is to off…
Of Reality. The Purposes of Philosophy by Gianni Vattimo
Reviewed by: Of Reality. The Purposes of Philosophy by Gianni Vattimo Brian O'Keeffe Gianni Vattimo, Of Reality. The Purposes of Philosophy. Translated from the Italian by Robert T. Valgenti. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2016. 235 pp. The touchstone for Gianni Vattimo's reflection in Of Reality is a saying of Nietzsche: "There are no facts, only interpretations." Nietzsche then adds, "And this too is an interpretation." Down the postm…
No prominent works on this page.
Of Reality. The Purposes of Philosophy by Gianni Vattimo
Reviewed by: Of Reality. The Purposes of Philosophy by Gianni Vattimo Brian O'Keeffe Gianni Vattimo, Of Reality. The Purposes of Philosophy. Translated from the Italian by Robert T. Valgenti. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2016. 235 pp. The touchstone for Gianni Vattimo's reflection in Of Reality is a saying of Nietzsche: "There are no facts, only interpretations." Nietzsche then adds, "And this too is an interpretation." Down the postm…
George Steiner’s Legacy
How much world a word contains, probably no one
Engaging with Translation. New Readings of George Steiner’s After Babel
George Steiners Vermächtnis
obachter" wrdigt (zit
George Steiner’s Metaphors for Translation
George Steiner’s After Babel contains many riches, and many of these can be found in the chapter “The Hermeneutic Motion”. But that chapter has its challenges and vexing provocations, and it therefore merits critical commentary. At issue, I argue, is the problematic elaboration of various metaphors for translation and a certain laxity in argument that is covered over by the fineness of Steiner’s writing style. The purpose of this essay is to off…
Translation, Gadamer, and the Hermeneutical Perspective
It is a truism," writes Beata Piecychna in The Hermeneutics of Translation, "to say that in order to translate a text, the translator must understand and interpret it" (p.43).It's indeed a truism, and therefore she is surely right to wonder, in this thoughtful and sophisticated book, why hermeneutics has been relatively neglected by translation studies.After all, the objective of hermeneutics is to elucidate the act of interpretation itself, and …
Schleiermacher’s Hermeneutics
French renderings of Friedrich Schleiermacher's writings devoted to hermeneutics and textual criticism. Dating from 1805 to 1830, some of these writings are relatively well-elaborated texts, whereas others are more disparate lecture notes and transcriptions
Afro-Creole Poetry in French from Louisiana’s Radical Civil War-Era Newspapers
Reviewed by: Afro-Creole Poetry in French from Louisiana’s Radical Civil War-Era Newspapers: A Bilingual Edition by Clint Bruce Brian O’Keeffe Clint Bruce. Afro-Creole Poetry in French from Louisiana’s Radical Civil War-Era Newspapers: A Bilingual Edition. New Orleans: The Historic New Orleans Collection, 2020. 364 pp. $40.00. This handsome volume presents seventy-nine poems composed by francophone Afro-Creole writers during the Civil War era. Tr…
Zur Ereignishaftigkeit von Übersetzungen
Ton Naaikens zufolge "there is a strong case to award translations the status of event" (Naaijkens 2008: 311).Paradoxerweise sttzt sich diese starke Aussage auf eine scheinbar eher schwache Behauptung, nmlich
The Events and Non-Events of Translation
The aim of this essay is to gain critical and theoretical purchase on the notion of an “event” as it may or may not relevantly apply to the practices of translation. The essay allows itself to be quizzical as regards the possibility that translation can be called an event at all, but it also inspects the ways in which, nonetheless, it is meaningful – and indeed useful – to consider the eventhood, or eventuality of translation. In that regard, I …
On the Eventful Nature of Translations
Translation Before the Law
This essay examines how American scholars, lawyers and judges in¬terpret the Constitution. Discussed is how anxieties arise in view of interpretations deemed to be too free to serve the interests of law, and how the solution to that putative hermeneutic freedom is an imposition of interpretive rules. But those rules are profiled in terms of an appeal to “fidelity,” and that appeal is relayed to the topic of translation. My essay offers a critical…
Speculations – On Translation
Review essay of: von der Osten, Esther / Sauter, Caroline [eds.] (2023): Was ist eine “relevante” Übersetzung? Arbeiten mit Derrida. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. 186 pp. ISBN: 978-3-8376-5678-7
Philosophy (8 works) · Translation Studies and Practices (6 works) · History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Art history (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Hermeneutics (4 works) · Chemistry (3 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)