  Subjectivity is both place-based and mis- or displaced with the movement of ideas. In this context, difference emerges as a rich terrain from which to engage others. For some, the difference that mediates speaking positions is always characterized by degrees of incommensurability as we can never be fully transparent with each other across conditions of alterity. However, the condition of incommensurability is not sufficient to abandon translation, but rather an imperative to hear others in and across their difference (Schutte 1998a: 61).