Universality and Translation - Sites of Struggle in Philosophy and Politics

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List of contents

Introduction | 1

Gavin Arnall

"Plus d'une langue": The Paradigm of Translation | 57

Barbara Cassin

The Philosopher as Translator | 74

Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Babel as Opportunity: Translating Solidarity | 87

Gary Wilder

Primitive Accumulation, Again | 115

Ben Conisbee Baer

Psychoanalytic States: Translating from Lenin to Freud and Au-delà | 183

Cate I. Reilly

Against Ion's Chain: Translatability in Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks | 221

Peter D. Thomas

Universal Eco-homophony: Overtaking Translation | 248

Naomi Waltham-Smith

The Relapses of the Universal: Translation and the Language of the Political | 274

Gavin Walker

Acknowledgments | 303

Contributors | 305

Index | 309

About the author

Gavin Arnall (Edited By)

Gavin Arnall is Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of Subterranean Fanon: An Underground Theory of Radical Change (Columbia, 2020).

Katie Chenoweth (Edited By)

Katie Chenoweth is Associate Professor of French at Princeton University.

Summary

This book collects essays that explore the relationship between translation and universality, especially in and through the traditions of deconstruction and Marxism.

Product details

• Authors: Gavin (EDT)/ Chenoweth Arnall, Gavin Chenoweth Arnall
• Assisted by: Gavin Arnall (Editor), Katie Chenoweth (Editor)
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.01.2025
• EAN: 9781531508562
• ISBN: 978-1-5315-0856-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies