From Language to Language: The Hospitality of Translation by Diagne, Souleymane Bachir

From Language to Language: The Hospitality of Translation

In this engaging humanist text, a renowned Senegalese philosopher explores the power of translation to bridge cultural...
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Author: Souleymane Bachir Diagne
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From Language to Language: The Hospitality of Translation by Diagne, Souleymane Bachir

From Language to Language: The Hospitality of Translation

$24.99

From Language to Language: The Hospitality of Translation

$24.99
Author: Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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 asymmetry, particularly regarding colonialism, where the interpreter becomes a true cultural mediator.

To 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.

Author: Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Published: 09/30/2025
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781635423938


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2025

About the Author
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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