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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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