philosophy, Mona Baker

Being foreign is different, by Jonathan Ree

February 3, 2016 Mona Baker Articles, Translation

Times Literary Supplement 06/09/1996 Can we find equivalents for philosophical terms? If philosophy really is (as its enemies keep saying) just another branch of European literature, still it is a pretty remarkable one. It is cosmopolitan like no other. Even the most rudimentary philosophical library will contain works written in Greek, Latin, French, English and German; and even the most

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Jonathan Ree, philosophy

Translatorial hexis: The politics of Pinkard’s translation of Hegel’s Phenomenology

December 20, 2014 Mona Baker Articles, Translation

Radical Philosophy 186 (Jul/Aug 2014) David Charlston Most branches of philosophy and many other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences studied in the anglophone academy draw on texts written in languages other than English and therefore rely on the products of translation, especially translations of historical, European philosophy. However, surprisingly little philosophical attention has been paid to the role

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David Charlston, Hegel, hexis, philosophy, Pierre Bourdieu