The session discussed the working paper “‘Form’ after Benjamin, Derrida, and Wittgenstein”

In this session, we discussed David M. Spitzer's working paper “Trans-philosophy: Translating philosophy on & beyond the boundaries”

In this session, we discussed the seminal paper The Translation of Philosophy by Jonathan Rée (2001)

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).

Based on a paper Philip Wilson was working on – on Simone Weil and translation:“EATING YOUR BREAD WITH TEARS: SIMONE WEIL AS PHILOSOPHER-TRANSLATOR”

Our first reading group was hosted by Lisa Foran with Jacques Derrida’s essay: 

• "S'il y a lieu de traduire I : La philosophie dans sa langue nationale (vers une « licterature en françois »)" 
• Translated by Sylvia Söderlind as "If there is cause to translate I: Philosophy in its national language (Towards a 'licterature en Francois')"