Writings on Translation

Abdessalam Benabdelali is a professor in the Faculty of Letters at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, and editor-in-chief of Pensée et Critique. His notable works include Political Philosophy of Al-Farabi and The Mythology of Reality, between Connection and Separation. Marouane Zakhir is associate professor of English at Chouaib Doukkali University in El-Jadida Morocco, where he is also an active member of the Applied Language and Culture Studies  Research Lab. Christian Hawkey is a poet, translator, and educator. He has written several full-length poetry collections, including Sift, as well as the widely celebrated genre-defying book Ventrakl. He lives in Berlin, Germany.

Elsewhere Texts: General Introduction
Introduction by Brahim El Guabli
BOOK I: On Translation
1.Foreword: The Labyrinths of Translation by Abdelfattah Kilito
2.Introduction: Translation is a Philosophical Question by Abdessalam Benabdelali
3.Translation and Metaphysics
4.Translation and Acculturation
5.In Praise of Betrayal
6.The Double Betrayal
7.The Circle of Translation
8.In the Mirror of the Other
9.The Task of Translation, the Task of Thought
10.The Revival of Poetry
11.The Migration of the Philosophical Text
12.Translation: A Tool for Modernization
BOOK II: Hosting the Stranger
13.Introduction: Does the Original Replace Its Translations?
14.On the Untranslatable
15.Self-Translation
16.On the Original as Plurality
17.Philosophy and Translation
18.Writing in Another Language is Another Writing
19.Suspended Translations
20.Isn’t Translation Itself Creativity?
21.Translation and Philosophy in the Arab World
22.Is Translation Always an Instrument of Dialogue?
23.The Draft-Original
24.When the Copy Surpasses the Original
25.On Translating an Untranslatable “Concept”
26.Addicted Translation
27.Translation and the Notion of the Original
28.Exposure
29.The Virtue of Translation
30.The Language of Translation and the Language of the Original
31.Translation and Identity
32.Hosting the Stranger