ABSTRACT
Like people and schools of criticism, ideas and theories travel—from person to person, from situation to situation, from one period to another…. There are particularly interesting cases of ideas and theories that move from one culture to another, as when so-called Eastern ideas about transcendence were imported into Europe.… Such movement to a new environment is never unimpeded. It necessarily involves processes of representation and institutionalization different from those at the point of origin. This complicates any account of the transplantation, transference, circulation and commerce of theories and ideas.
