Metaphysical translation as a rationale for a new cultural program, or the drama of misspeak embodiment

In the history of culture, translation can not only adapt the values of a foreign culture or develop the potential of its own culture, but also substantiate a new cultural program, carrying out reassembly of culture on new grounds. Contrasting the foreignisation and domestication is not enough if the translation aims to change the very mode of cultural production and the very justification of culture, declaring the metaphysical motive as the main thing for the existence of a local culture. I prove that the shift cannot occur declaratively, but requires a hidden change in the functions of translation as a form of cultural consciousness, which acts outward in the form of slips, misunderstandings or misspeaks. At the same time, the cultural enthusiasm behind this translation does not make it possible to understand these reservations as simple inaccuracies or flaws, but only as necessary for self-justifying culture as a closed system, as nodes for building such closure. Such translations cannot be reduced to expressing the intellectual content of an epoch, but they represent the only way to translate those intellectual tasks that determine further discussions of the epoch. The example of one of the lines in the development of Russian philosophical idealism, associated with enhanced translation and interpretation of the summits of ancient philosophy, and the long-term consequences of its cultural program, proves the validity of the proposed translation research. It is proposed to conditionally call such a translation “metaphysical”, taking in mind its programmatic role for the formulation of a new philosophical perspective, not confined to the arguments in the original and translation.