The philosophy of translation
by TIM CRANE
This extraordinary book, a huge dictionary of philosophical terms from many languages, is a translation of Vocabulaire européen des philosophies: Dictionnaire des intraduisibles, originally published in 2004, the brainchild of the French philosopher Barbara Cassin. If the original project was paradoxical, then the present version is doubly so: not just a dictionary of untranslatable words, but a translation of that dictionary. Rather than despair at the self-undermining self-referentiality of the whole idea, the editors rejoice in it. Indeed, moving the word “untranslatable” to the beginning of the English title proudly asserts the paradox even more forcefully than the original French title does, and forms what the English-language editor Emily Apter calls “an organising principle of the entire project”.
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http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1512220.ece
Showing posts with label Wittgenstein. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wittgenstein. Show all posts
Conference: Translating Wittgenstein
TRANSLATING WITTGENSTEIN
All talks will be held at:
Institut fuer Philosophie der Universitaet Wien,
Neues Institutsgebaeude (NIG), 3. Stock, Hoersaal 3D,
1010 Wien, Universitaetsstrasse 7.
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PROGRAMME
FRIDAY. 23 APRIL 2010
3.30pm Welcoming words
Esther Ramharter (Wien)
Matthias Kross (Potsdam)
4pm Dilek Dizdar (Mainz/Germersheim)
"Travelling Concepts" -- Das Neue der Translationswissenschaft
5pm Martin Kusch (Vienna)
Wittgenstein on Translation
6pm James Conant (Chicago)
Translating Wittgenstein
Saturday 24 APRIL 2010 TRANSLATING WITTGENSTEIN I (ENGLISCH, DEUTSCH)
10am Christoph Koenig (Osnabrück)
Das verlorene "Unaussprechliche"
Wittgensteins philologischer Kommentar auf Englisch, am Beispiel Ludwig Uhlands (1917)
11am Alfred Nordmann (Darmstadt)
"Die Hypothese unterscheidet sich vom Satz" -- Zur Uebersetzbarkeit von Gedanken
12noon Joachim Schulte (Zurich)
Die Revision der englischen Uebersetzung von Wittgensteins Philosophischen Untersuchungen -- Ein Erfahrungsbericht
TRANSLATING WITTGENSTEIN II (UNGARISCH, FRANZÖSISCH, ITALIENISCH)
3pm Katalin Neumer (Budapest)
Verfuehrt auch die ungarische Sprache das Denken oder lassen sich auch die Ungarn therapieren?
4pm Melika Ouelbani (Tunis/Paris)
Was ist "Uebersetzen" für Wittgenstein -- Eine franzoesische Perspektive
5pm Marco Brusotti (Lecce)
Philosophische Probleme uebersetzen -- Anmerkungen zu Wittgenstein in Italien
This symposium will focus on the concrete example of translating Wittgenstein's
writings in order to highlight the difficulties in translating philosophical
texts but also to shed light on the scope of a philosophy of translation.
Furthermore, Wittgenstein's own thoughts concerning the problem of
translation and their bearing on recent research in translation theory will be
discussed.
For more information, please contact
Dr Esther Ramharter
All talks will be held at:
Institut fuer Philosophie der Universitaet Wien,
Neues Institutsgebaeude (NIG), 3. Stock, Hoersaal 3D,
1010 Wien, Universitaetsstrasse 7.
---------------------------------------------------------------
PROGRAMME
FRIDAY. 23 APRIL 2010
3.30pm Welcoming words
Esther Ramharter (Wien)
Matthias Kross (Potsdam)
4pm Dilek Dizdar (Mainz/Germersheim)
"Travelling Concepts" -- Das Neue der Translationswissenschaft
5pm Martin Kusch (Vienna)
Wittgenstein on Translation
6pm James Conant (Chicago)
Translating Wittgenstein
Saturday 24 APRIL 2010 TRANSLATING WITTGENSTEIN I (ENGLISCH, DEUTSCH)
10am Christoph Koenig (Osnabrück)
Das verlorene "Unaussprechliche"
Wittgensteins philologischer Kommentar auf Englisch, am Beispiel Ludwig Uhlands (1917)
11am Alfred Nordmann (Darmstadt)
"Die Hypothese unterscheidet sich vom Satz" -- Zur Uebersetzbarkeit von Gedanken
12noon Joachim Schulte (Zurich)
Die Revision der englischen Uebersetzung von Wittgensteins Philosophischen Untersuchungen -- Ein Erfahrungsbericht
TRANSLATING WITTGENSTEIN II (UNGARISCH, FRANZÖSISCH, ITALIENISCH)
3pm Katalin Neumer (Budapest)
Verfuehrt auch die ungarische Sprache das Denken oder lassen sich auch die Ungarn therapieren?
4pm Melika Ouelbani (Tunis/Paris)
Was ist "Uebersetzen" für Wittgenstein -- Eine franzoesische Perspektive
5pm Marco Brusotti (Lecce)
Philosophische Probleme uebersetzen -- Anmerkungen zu Wittgenstein in Italien
This symposium will focus on the concrete example of translating Wittgenstein's
writings in order to highlight the difficulties in translating philosophical
texts but also to shed light on the scope of a philosophy of translation.
Furthermore, Wittgenstein's own thoughts concerning the problem of
translation and their bearing on recent research in translation theory will be
discussed.
For more information, please contact
Dr Esther Ramharter
Article: Hans-Johann Glock, Relativism, commensurability and traslatability
RELATIVISM, COMMENSURABILITY AND TRANSLATABILITY
Author: Glock, Hans-Johann1
Source: Ratio, Volume 20, Number 4, December 2007 , pp. 377-402(26)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Key: - Free Content - New Content - Subscribed Content - Free Trial Content
Abstract:
This paper discusses conceptual relativism. The main focus is on the contrasting ideas of Wittgenstein and Davidson, with Quine, Kuhn, Feyerabend and Hacker in supporting roles. I distinguish conceptual from alethic and ontological relativism, defend a distinction between conceptual scheme and empirical content, and reject the Davidsonian argument against the possibility of alternative conceptual schemes: there can be conceptual diversity without failure of translation, and failure of translation is not necessarily incompatible with recognizing a practice as linguistic. Conceptual relativism may be untenable, but not for the hermeneutic reasons espoused by Davidson.
Document Type: Research article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9329.2007.00374.x
Affiliations: 1: Philosophisches SeminarUniversität ZürichZürichbergstrasse 43CH-8044 Zürich, Email: glock@philos.uzh.ch
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Author: Glock, Hans-Johann1
Source: Ratio, Volume 20, Number 4, December 2007 , pp. 377-402(26)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Key: - Free Content - New Content - Subscribed Content - Free Trial Content
Abstract:
This paper discusses conceptual relativism. The main focus is on the contrasting ideas of Wittgenstein and Davidson, with Quine, Kuhn, Feyerabend and Hacker in supporting roles. I distinguish conceptual from alethic and ontological relativism, defend a distinction between conceptual scheme and empirical content, and reject the Davidsonian argument against the possibility of alternative conceptual schemes: there can be conceptual diversity without failure of translation, and failure of translation is not necessarily incompatible with recognizing a practice as linguistic. Conceptual relativism may be untenable, but not for the hermeneutic reasons espoused by Davidson.
Document Type: Research article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9329.2007.00374.x
Affiliations: 1: Philosophisches SeminarUniversität ZürichZürichbergstrasse 43CH-8044 Zürich, Email: glock@philos.uzh.ch
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