Within contemporary theory, the concepts of translation and universality have frequently been associated with different and even opposed philosophical and political projects: watchwords of either domination or liberation, the erasure of difference or the defense of difference. The universalizing drives of capitalism, colonialism, and other systems of oppression have precipitated widespread suspicion of any appeal to universality. This has led some, in turn, to champion the very notion of universality as antithetical to these systems of oppression. Similarly, recent scholarship has begun to grapple with the fundamental role of translation not only in forging inclusive democratic politics but also, by contrast, in violence, including imperial expansion and global war.
The present volume advocates neither for nor against translation or universality as such. Instead, it attends to their insurmountable ambiguity and equivocity, the tensions and contradictions that are internal to both concepts and that exist between them. Indeed, the wager of this volume is that translation, universality, and their relationship name irreducible yet overlapping sites of struggle for a diverse array of struggles on the Left.
Drawing from multiple intellectual traditions and orientations, with a special emphasis on deconstruction and Marxism, this volume both reveals and participates in a subterranean current of thought committed to theorizing the dynamic, plural, and ultimately inextricable relationship between translation and universality. Its contributors approach this problem in ways that challenge and unsettle dominant trends within translation studies and critical and postcolonial theory, thereby opening new lines of inquiry within and beyond these fields.
قائمة المحتويات
Introduction | 1
Gavin Arnall
“Plus d’une langue”: The Paradigm of Translation | 57
Barbara Cassin
The Philosopher as Translator | 74
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Babel as Opportunity: Translating Solidarity | 87
Gary Wilder
Primitive Accumulation, Again | 115
Ben Conisbee Baer
Psychoanalytic States: Translating from Lenin to Freud and Au-delà | 183
Cate I. Reilly
Against Ion’s Chain: Translatability in Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks | 221
Peter D. Thomas
Universal Eco-homophony: Overtaking Translation | 248
Naomi Waltham-Smith
The Relapses of the Universal: Translation and the Language of the Political | 274
Gavin Walker
Acknowledgments | 303
Contributors | 305
Index | 309
عن المؤلف
Gary Wilder is Director of the Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he is Professor in the Ph D Program of Anthropology, with cross appointments in History and French. He is the author of Concrete Utopianism: The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity (Fordham University Press, 2022), Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Duke University Press, 2015), and The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism between the World Wars (University of Chicago Press, 2005). He is coauthor of Theses on Theory and History (special issue of History of the Present: A Journal of Critical History, 2020) and two edited volumes, The Fernando Coronil Reader: The Struggle for Life Is the Matter (Duke University Press, 2019) and The Postcolonial Contemporary: Political Imaginaries for the Global Present (Fordham University Press, 2018). He is currently writing a book on the political thought of C. L. R. James.
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