{"product_id":"from-language-to-language-the-hospitality-of-translation-9781635423938","title":"From Language to Language: The Hospitality of Translation","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this engaging humanist text, a renowned Senegalese philosopher explores the power of translation to bridge cultural divides.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInformed by his own multicultural background--African, French, and American--Souleymane Bachir Diagne interrogates the practice of translation in this thoughtful text. Although translation often produces a relationship of profound inequality between dominant and dominated languages, it can also be a source of dialogue and exchange, including in situations of asymmetry, particularly regarding colonialism, where the interpreter becomes a true cultural mediator. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo praise translation, \"the language of languages,\" is to celebrate its plurality and equality, because to translate is to give hospitality in one language to what has been thought in another. It is to create reciprocity, a shared sense of humanity, and to imagine a positive version of the Tower of Babel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSouleymane Bachir Diagne \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Philosophy and Francophone Studies at Columbia University. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Ink of the Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOpen to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePostcolonial Bergson\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Africa(s): Universalism and Decolonial Thought \u003c\/i\u003e(coauthored with Jean-Loup Amselle), and \u003ci\u003eAfrican Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude\u003c\/i\u003e (Other Press, 2023). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDylan Temel \u003c\/b\u003eis a translator and English instructor at the University of Nanterre. He currently lives in Paris.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Other Press (NY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51623996621074,"sku":"9781635423938","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3244c7b3-4634-4497-b10d-0dd53ff9432b.jpg?v=1758651427","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/from-language-to-language-the-hospitality-of-translation-9781635423938","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}