26-27 marzo 2024
DILEF, via della Pergola 60 – Firenze
Sala Orbatello
L'iniziativa è organizzata dall'unità di ricerca GEIST (DILEF) in collaborazione con il Centro Studi PHILTRA (Università degli Studi di Padova) e con il patrocinio della SISF – Società Italiana di Storia della Filosofia.
Evento realizzato nell’ambito del progetto LANGEST (CUP: B83C22006370007)
The ambiguous expression “translation after translation”, from the title of the Conference, serves to stress the continuous survival of translation in its many forms, its repetition in difference and its historical temporality. In other words, what is at stake here is the plurality as the mode of being of translation, a necessary demand for translation (always as another and different translation) intrinsic to its very concept.
What is/are the proper form(s) in which translation needs to survive today? What are the ends of translation (and tasks of translators) after its declared “end”? Which directions could the concept of translation take after its disciplinary consolidation within translation studies? What perspectives might be envisaged within the current dialogue between philosophy and translation? How to deal philosophically with the other translation-related phenomena such as plurilingualism, translingualism, hybridization, exophony, extraterritoriality, linguistic superdiversity? How can we keep alive the demand for translation in a world of capitalist production and neoliberal ideology that reduces the production of meaning to semantic equivalences needed for an efficient communicative exchange? All these diverse questions try to grasp the universal meaning of translation while taking into account its historical, cultural and political conditions which necessarily differentiate the practices of translation.
The Conference “Translation after Translation. Current Perspectives and New Directions in Philosophy of Translation” aims to discuss different concepts of translation and the related problems in order to frame actual and possible routes in the philosophy of translation. The goal is to discuss various topics, spanning from classical perspectives on translation within the continental, hermeneutic, deconstructivist, analytical tradition to contemporary and cutting-edge lines of research, as well as to general issues concerning language, culture, knowledge and history.
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