Vol. 48, No. 3, Autumn 2025
SPECIAL ISSUE – Translation and Philosophy: Disciplines in Need of Dialogue
Guest Editor: Byron Byrne-Taylor
- Byron Byrne-Taylor – Introduction
- Luca Siniscalco – Irradiations of the Origin(al): Hermeneutics of Translation and Iconic Resonances
- Özhan Öztürk – Hypertranslation as a Problem Solver
- Falenkova Evgenia – Translation as a Philosophical Act and the Risk of Saying: On Tolstoy, Wittgenstein, Gandhi, and the Ethics of Meaning Across Cultures
- Wai-Lok Cheung – A Situational Hermeneutic: The Priority of Reference over Meaning
- Cynthia Mitchell – Invisible Appearing: Translating the Philosophical Interiority of Fiction
- Anna Dijkstra – “Darüber muß man schweigen”: The Disquieting Implications of Translating Silence
- Amresh Sinha – Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy of Language and Translation
- Shayna Federico – Ambiguity and Artifacticty: Beauvoir and an Existentialist Ethics of Translation
- Daniel Simons – Amongst the Ruins: Wittgenstein and Translation
- Byron Byrne-Taylor – “Translation is not just a tool — it is also a question”: Interview with Mauricio Mendonça Cardozo
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ARTICLES
- Per Bjørnar Grande – Triangular Desire in Jane Austen’s Novels
- Ali Kooraei – Symbolism and Sacred Geometry in Islamic Art: A Comparative Study with Platonic Aesthetics
BOOK REVIEWS
- Gadamer on Art and Aesthetic Experience: Rethinking Hermeneutical Aesthetics Today. By Stefano Marino and Elena Romagnoli (Eds.). New York: State University of New York Press, 2025. 208 pp.
- Gandhi, Truth, and Nonviolence: The Politics of Engagement in Post-Truth Times. By Vinay Lal (Ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. 368 pp.
- The Woman Question in Islamic Studies. By Kecia Ali. NY: Princeton University Press, 2024. 240 pp.
- Culture’s Futures: Science Fiction, Form and the Problem of Culture. By Eric Aronoff. UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2025. 291 pp.
- Feminist Literature as Everyday Use: New Materialist Methodologies for Critical Thinking. By Beatriz Revelles-Benavente. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 192 pp.
- Return of the Gods: Mythology in Romantic Philosophy and Literature. By Owen Ware. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. 280 pp.
- Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva. By Janaki Bakhle. NY: Princeton University Press, 2024. 520 pp.
- Transcending Postmodernism: Performatism 2.0. By Raoul Eshelman. UK: Routledge, 2025. 228 pp.
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MORE SPECIAL ISSUES
- Art, Imagination, and Affect
- A Festschrift for Peter Lamarque
- Art and Emotion: Philosophical Engagements with Painting
- Understanding and Enjoyment in Aesthetic Experience
- Perspectives in Contemporary Critical Theory
- Reception of Sanskrit Studies in the 19th Century European Ideology
- Painting and Poetry: New Accents
The Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics publishes special volumes on themes of current critical interest and contemporary relevance. Some of the special issues published in the past include “Deconstruction in Contemporary Criticism” (1985), “Representation in Contemporary Criticism” (1986), “Frankfurt School of Aesthetics” (1988), “Prague School of Structuralism” (1991), “Indian Aesthetics and Contemporary Theory” (1992), “Italian Aesthetics since Croce” (1993), “Aesthetics Today” (1994), “Environmental Aesthetics” (1995), etc. The Journal welcomes proposals for possible special issues at any time.