The Translation of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Translation
A Conference at the University of Potsdam, September 23 & 24, 2019There are different ways of thinking of what a temporal medium of tradition is, and what transmission comes to. This involves various practices of interpretation of the past, and various forms of establishing continuity and differentiation.
We will be concerned specifically with the question whether the concept of translation, as it is elaborated by different theories of translation, could give us a particular understanding of these continuities and transformations. Thus, we will distinguish the transmission of contents from the translation of terms. Whereas much of our understanding of meaning is directed to think in terms of propositional unities, the focus on translation can open for us the unity of a word or a term.
We, consequently, plan to discuss the interdependence of the translation of terms and the transmission of propositional content. Translation in this broad sense provides us with a framework for considering history and in particular the shifts in the history of philosophy. These acts of translation can occur when a new conceptual space is opened and the term under consideration is embedded in it.
The conference will pursue this aim by a number of concrete case studies. In particular we will be concerned with a complex web of connection that arises by attending to the fate of the Kantian or more broadly the German Idealist philosophical tradition throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century up to the present age.
Contact:
bianca.ancillotti [at] uni-leipzig.de
Location:
Campus Am Neuen Palais, Haus 8, Raum 0.56
Speakers:
Sarale Ben Asher
Idit Chikurel
Paul Franks
Eli Friedlander
Yuval Kremnitzer
Benjamin Pollock
Moran Godess Riccitelli
Christoph Schulte
Moderators:
Bianca Ancillotti
Silver Bronzo
James Conant
Christoph Koenig
Martin Gustafsson
Johannes Haag
Adrian Haddock
Conference Program
September 23rd
09:30 – 10:00 Coffee and Opening Remarks
10:00 – 11:30 Charity, Reflection, and the Determinability of Translation
Speaker: Paul Franks
Moderator: Johannes Haag
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break
12:00 – 13:30 The Language of Ciphers in Kant’s Third Critique: Towards Moral Theology
Speaker: Moran Godess Riccitelli
Moderator: Silver Bronzo
13:30 – 15:00 Lunch Break
15:00 – 16:30 Not a Simple Analogy: The Copernican Revolution and Kant
Speaker: Sarale Ben Asher
Moderator: Bianca Ancillotti
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 – 18:30 Translation as Realization
Speaker: Eli Friedlander
Moderator: Christoph Koenig
September 24th
10:00 – 11:30 Kant in Hebrew in 1783
Speaker: Christoph Schulte
Moderator: Martin Gustafsson
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break
12:00 – 13:30 Transcultural Translations: Maimon’s and Mendelssohn’s Translations of Scientific and Logical Knowledge in Jewish Philosophy
Speaker: Idit Chikurel
Moderator: tba
13:30 – 15:00 Lunch Break
15:00 – 16:30 Mendelssohn’s Silent Hebrew and the Missed Opportunity of the Pantheism Affair
Speaker: Yuval Kremnitzer
Modeator: Adrian Haddock
16:30–17:00 Coffee Break
17:00–18:30 Franz Rosenzweig on Teshuva, Metanoia, and Umkehr
Speaker: Benjamin Pollock
Moderator: James Conant
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