The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Philosophy

Piers Rawling is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Florida State University. He has wideranging interests and has published papers on decision theory, ethics (with David McNaughton), metaphysics, philosophy of action, language, mind and science and applications of quantum theory (with Stephen Selesnick). He is co-editor (with Alfred Mele) of The Oxford Handbook of Rationality (2004). Philip Wilson is Honorary Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, where he teaches literature and philosophy. Publications include: The Luther Breviary (translated with John Gledhill, 2007); Literary Translation: Re-drawing the Boundaries (edited with Jean Boase- Beier and Antoinette Fawcett, 2014); The Bright Rose: German Verse 800–1280 (translated and edited, 2015); Translation after Wittgenstein (Routledge 2015); and The Histories of Alexander Neville (with Ingrid Walton and Clive Wilkins-Jones, forthcoming). His research interests include the philosophy of history and translation.

Contents

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Piers Rawling and Philip Wilson

PART 1

Philosophers on translation






Schleiermacher
Theo Hermans




Nietzsche
Rosemary Arrojo




Heidegger
Tom Greaves




Wittgenstein
Silvia Panizza




Benjamin
Jean Boase-Beier




Gadamer and Ricoeur
Lisa Foran




Quine
Paul A. Roth




Davidson
Piers Rawling




Derrida
Deborah Goldgaber




Current trends in philosophy and translation
Roland Végső

PART 2

Translation studies and philosophy




Translation theory and philosophy
Maria Tymoczko




Context and pragmatics
Shyam Ranganathan




Culture
Sergey Tyulenev




Equivalence
Alice Leal




Ethics
Joanna Drugan




Feminism
Valerie Henitiuk




Linguistics
Kirsten Malmkjær




Meaning
Rachel Weissbrod



PART 3

The translation of philosophy




The translation of philosophical texts
Duncan Large




Translating feminist philosophers
Carolyn Shread




Shelley’s Plato
Ross Wilson




Translating Kant and Hegel
Nicholas Walker




Translating Derrida
Oisín Keohane




Levinas: his philosophy and its translation
Bettina Bergo

PART 4

Emerging trends




Cognitive approaches to translation
Maria Șerban




Machine translation
Dorothy Kenny




Literary Translation
Leena Laiho




Mysticism, esotericism and translation
Philip Wilson




Toward a philosophy of translation

Salah Basalamah

Index