The fundamental aim of translation studies in general is to better understand the practice of translation. Insofar as hermeneutics can be regarded as an approach to understanding the nature of understanding itself (and in this it finds alliances with phenomenology), the task of this volume is to demonstrate that hermeneutics can accordingly provide a means to better apprehend the subtle complexities of translation. At issue are translators’ myriad decisions, reactions, negotiations and compromises as they practice their craft. At stake is translation knowledge – what translators must know, how they know what they know, and how such savoir faire is deployed in specific instances of translation. Essays in this volume address the somatic and the cognitive, questions of experience and expertise, empirical practice, methodological protocols and suitable philosophical models in order to gain better insight into the challenging task of the translator. An additional highlight of this volume is the sustained assessment of Fritz Paepcke, one of the pioneers of what, today, is called translational hermeneutics, Paepcke being a scholar who proposed new ways to consider the delicate, but necessary negotiation between translation theory and translation practice. CONTENTS Anthony Pym: On Erlebnis within Translation Knowledge Holger Siever: Komplexes Denken: Eine Herausforderung auch für die Hermeneutik? Radegundis Stolze: Zur Anschlussfí¤higkeit der Hermeneutik in der Translatologie Lucia Salvato: Ein hermeneutischer Ansatz zur Versöhnung antagonistischer íœbersetzungsorientierungen Anna Pavlova: Kognitive Textverarbeitung und Verstehen fürs íœbersetzen Douglas Robinson: The 心 of the Foreign: The Feeling-Based Hermeneutics of Translation as Influenced by Ancient Chinese Thought Mathilde Fontanet: Revisiting the Unit of Translation from the Hermeneutical Perspective Paulo Oliveira: íœbersetzung als Aufbau des Vergleichbaren (Auf RicÅ”urs Pfad mit Wittgenstein und Toury) Karolina Jezewska, Kasia Jezewska, John Stanley: Introspektion unter der Lupe. Phí¤nomenologische und hermeneutische Ansí¤tze im empirischen Vergleich mit Think Aloud und IPDR Masoud Pourahmadali Tochahi: Grundelemente einer Phí¤nomenologie des íœbersetzens: íœbersetzungsbewusstsein und phí¤nomenologische Analyse von íœbersetzungsakten im Ausgang von einem nominalen Ausdruck Mohamed Saki: Hermeneutics and Paratext: Seamus Heaney’s Retranslation of Beowulf TomáÅ¡ Svoboda: A Hermeneutic Reading of the Works of JiÅ™í­ Leví½ Philippe Forget: Grenzen und Möglichkeiten der (paepckeschen) Hermeneutik Alberto Gil: Der Evidentia-Begriff in seinen rhetorisch-translatologischen Dimensionen. Ein DenkanstoíŸ von Fritz Paepcke Eliane Laverdure: Das Spiel des íœbersetzens. Grundzüge einer komparativen Studie John Stanley: Translational Hermeneutics: Understanding (Mis-)Understood? ISBN: 978-606-697-126-3 (paperback) ISBN: 978-606-697-127-0 (electronic)