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Transphil Reading Series based on the Special Issue of Perspectives
Special Issue of Perspectives “Philosophy in/on translation” (ed. Philip Wilson & Alice Leal, 2023)
The first publication of our group came out in 2023. The papers count over 4,000 views so far. To offer everyone an opportunity to (re)read the papers and discuss them, we put together a reading series.
The programme was as follows:
30 May 2023 Philip and Alice “A tale of two disciplines? Philosophy in/on translation” 25 July 2023 Piers Rawling “Davidson on indeterminacy and ‘passing theories’: need translators worry?” 25 October 2023 Saša Hrnjez “Too late to trans-late? On belatedness and translation” 06 December 2023 Lisa Foran “Untranslatability and the ethics of pause” 20 March 2024 Samir Haddad “Teaching with untranslatables in The Beast and the Sovereign Volume I” 05 June 2024 Jonathan Joshua Egid “How does philosophy learn to speak a new language?” 24 July 2024 Melissa Pawelski “Between ‘Körper’ and ‘Leib’ – Translating Michel Foucault’s concept of the body after Friedrich Nietzsche” 15 October 2024 Stephen Noble “Translation: a ‘dark secret' of philosophy?” -
01 March 2023 hosted by Paulo Oliveira
The session discussed the working paper “‘Form’ after Benjamin, Derrida, and Wittgenstein”
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07 December 2022 hosted by David M. Spitzer
In this session, we discussed David M. Spitzer's working paper “Trans-philosophy: Translating philosophy on & beyond the boundaries”
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08 June 2022 hosted by Jonathan Egid
In this session, we discussed the seminal paper The Translation of Philosophy by Jonathan Rée (2001)
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27 April 2022 hosted by Alice Leal
The idea was to discuss the issue of "equivalence" in translation from the point of view of philosophy. The starting point of the discussion will be Alice's 2019 chapter "Equivalence" in The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Philosophy (ed. by Philip Wilson and Piers Rawling).
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09 February 2022 hosted by Philip Wilson
Based on a paper Philip Wilson was working on – on Simone Weil and translation:“EATING YOUR BREAD WITH TEARS: SIMONE WEIL AS PHILOSOPHER-TRANSLATOR”
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17 November 2021 hosted by Lisa Foran
Our first reading group was hosted by Lisa Foran with Jacques Derrida’s essay:
