?Starting from the literary translations and reflections on the theory of translation of Christoph Martin Wieland, this book deals with different modalities and methods of translating and transmitting? not only from language to language, but also between literary genres, epochs, knowledge formations and nations. Wieland is portrayed as an author and editor who devoted himself? with experimental openness? to a project of mediating and resolving dichotomies such as cosmopolitism and nation.".

Während im 19. Jahrhundert die ›weißen Flecken‹ von den Landkarten verschwinden, erscheint eine eigentümliche Figur in der geographischen Imagination, die Figur eines Forschers, der verschollen ist. Das Verschwinden jedoch findet unter Beobachtung statt, es wird in Erzählungen und Karten organisiert, es schreibt sich in Protokolle ein, die das Verschwinden wahrnehmbar machen und zugleich die Wahrnehmung eines homogenen geographischen Raums und die Bedingungen seiner Repräsentation formieren. While, during the 19th century, the ›white spots‹ disappear from the maps, a peculiar figure appears (...) in the geographical imagination: the figure of a researcher who has been lost. However, the disappearance takes place under observation, it is organized in narratives and maps, it is inscribed in protocols that make the disappearance perceptible and simultaneously form the perception of a homogeneous geographical space and the conditions of its representation. (shrink)