On translation Everyone complains about what is lost in translations. This is the first account I have seen of the potentially positive impact of translation that it represents ... a genuinely new contribution. Drew A. Hyland In his original philosophical exploration of translation John Sallis shows that translating is much more than a matter of transposing one language into another. At the very heart of language translation is operative throughout human thought and experience. Sallis approaches translation from four directions: from the dream of nontranslation or universal translatability; through a scene of translation staged by Shakespeare in which the entire range of senses of translation is played out; through the question of the force of words; and from the representation of untranslatability in painting and music. Drawing on Jakobson Gadamer Benjamin and Derrida Sallis shows how the classical concept of translation has undergone mutation and deconstruction