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Souleymane Bachir Diagne: translation, a bridge between the humanities
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Souleymane Bachir Diagne.
© Vincent MULLER / Opale.photo / Editions Albin Michel)
By: Pascal Paradou Follow
“
To praise translation
, “
the language of languages
”,
is to celebrate the plural of these and their equality;
because to translate is to give hospitality in one language to what has been thought of in another
” (Replay)
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Guest: the philosopher Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Senegalese philosopher. Professor of Philosophy and French at Columbia University. Author of “
From language to language, the hospitality of translation
” Éditions Albin Michel.
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