Translation and Philosophy

Lisa Foran is a tutor and doctoral candidate in the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin and a visiting graduate student at the Archives Husserl (ÉNS) Paris. Her research, funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, focuses on the relationship between translation and the Other in the work of Jacques Derrida.

• Contents: Theo Harden: The Awful German Language, or, Is ‘Die Geistige Entwicklung’ ‘The Mental Development’? – David Charlston: Translating Hegel’s Ambiguity: A Culture of Humor and Witz – Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan: Reading Oneself in Quotation Marks: At the Crossing of Disciplines – Andrew Whitehead: Moonless Moons and a Pretty Girl: Translating Ikkyū Sōjun – Angelo Bottone: Translation and Justice in Paul Ricoeur – Lisa Foran: Translation as a Path to the Other: Derrida and Ricoeur – Elad Lapidot: What is the Reason for Translating Philosophy? I. Undoing Babel – Alena Dvorakova: Pleasure in Translation: Translating Mill’s ‘Utilitarianism’ from English into Czech – Veronica O’Neill: The Underlying Role of Translation: A Discussion of Walter Benjamin’s ‘Kinship’ – Sergey Tyulenev: Systemics and Lifeworld of Translation – Feargus Denman: Translation, Philosophy and Language: What Counts?