Translating Modernity: (Trans)formations of a Concept

This edited book examines three main understandings of the concept of modernity in relation to translation: “modernity as translation” (transformational process where modernity itself is conceptualized through translation), “translation of modernity” (object of transformation; that is, modernity as the object being translated across different contexts), and “modernity in translation” (contrastive modernities existing within ongoing translation processes). With these three axes of reflection...