Universality and Translation

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. His research and teaching converge at the intersection of aesthetics, politics, and philosophy, with a special focus on Marxism and its (missed) encounters with Black and Indigenous radicalisms. He is the author of Subterranean Fanon: An Underground Theory of Radical Change (Columbia University Press, 2020), the translator of Emilio de Ipola's Althusser, The Infinite Farewell (Duke University Press, 2018), and the coeditor of Between Revolution and Democracy: Jose Arico, Marxism, and Latin America (Brill's Historical Materialism Book Series, forthcoming).Katie Chenoweth (Edited By) Katie Chenoweth is Associate Professor of French at Princeton University. She is the author of The Prosthetic Tongue: Printing Technology and the Rise of the French Language (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019). Her articles on Renaissance culture, media history, and deconstruction have appeared in venues such as Discourse, Montaigne Studies, Symploke, and The Comparatist. She is director of the Bibliotheque Derrida at Editions du Seuil, a collection that includes Derrida's unpublished seminars and other posthumous works. At Princeton, she is the director of Derrida's Margins, an ongoing digital humanities project dedicated to Derrida's personal library.

• Introduction 1Gavin Arnall"Plus d'une langue": The Paradigm of Translation 57Barbara CassinThe Philosopher as Translator 74Souleymane Bachir DiagneBabel as Opportunity: Translating Solidarity 87Gary WilderPrimitive Accumulation, Again 115Ben Conisbee BaerPsychoanalytic States: Translating from Lenin to Freud and Au-delà 183Cate I. ReillyAgainst Ion's Chain: Translatability in Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks 221Peter D. ThomasUniversal Eco-homophony: Overtaking Translation 248Naomi Waltham-SmithThe Relapses of the Universal: Translation and the Language of the Political 274Gavin WalkerAcknowledgments 303Contributors 305Index 309