autorisierende Größe

English translation: validating entity / legitimising value

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German term or phrase:autorisierende Größe
English translation:validating entity / legitimising value
Entered by: Helen Shiner

20:43 Aug 20, 2010
German to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Philosophy
German term or phrase: autorisierende Größe
"Authentizität ist damit ein Begriff, der seine paradoxe Position zwischen subjektiver Legitimierung und objektiver Beglaubigung nicht aufgibt. Er wird in seiner reflexiven Selbstinszenierung als polemischer Gegenbegriff ebenso greifbar wie als **autorisierende Größe**."

TIA.
Parrot
Spain
Local time: 21:41
validating entity / legitimising value
Explanation:
A couple of other suggestions

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Thanks, Parrot
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Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:41
Grading comment
Thank you all. I used legitimising.
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1justification
philgoddard
4validating entity / legitimising value
Helen Shiner


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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
justification


Explanation:
You can only ever hope to convey the approximate gist of texts like these (they always make me think of the emperor's new clothes), but here's my attempt at the whole sentence:

Its self-referentiality can be seen both as a polemical counterargument and as a justification in its own right.

And please don't ask me to explain what that means.

philgoddard
United States
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Thayenga: I like justification because it conveys the message quite clearly.
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
validating entity / legitimising value


Explanation:
A couple of other suggestions

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Note added at 3 days21 hrs (2010-08-24 18:26:07 GMT) Post-grading
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Thanks, Parrot

Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:41
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 43
Grading comment
Thank you all. I used legitimising.
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