From Language to Language
The Hospitality of Translation
$46.83
- Hardcover
128 pages
- Release Date
28 October 2025
Summary
In this engaging humanist text, a renowned Senegalese philosopher explores the power of translation to bridge cultural divides.
Informed 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 as…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781635423938 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1635423937 |
| Author: | Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Dylan Temel |
| Publisher: | Other Press LLC |
| Imprint: | Other Press LLC |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 28 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 146mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
“A broad and vital philosophy of translation as a decolonizing force that serves to build a common humanity…a seminal work that furthers translation scholarship.” —Kirkus Reviews
Praise for African Art as Philosophy:
“It perfectly articulates all of the answers to the questions one asks oneself when in contact with modern, postmodern, and contemporary Western arts, as well as non-Western traditional arts.” —New York Times Book Review
“Diagne has further entrenched his reputation as a clear-sighted thinker.” —African Studies Review
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Souleymane Bachir Diagne is Professor of Philosophy and Francophone Studies at Columbia University. His books include The Ink of the Scholars: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa, Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition, Postcolonial Bergson, In Search of Africa(s): Universalism and Decolonial Thought (coauthored with Jean-Loup Amselle), and African Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude (Other Press, 2023).
Dylan Temel is a translator and English instructor at the University of Nanterre. He currently lives in Paris.
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