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Translation as Paradigm for Human Sciences
- The Journal of Speculative Philosophy
- Penn State University Press
- Volume 30, Number 3, 2016
- pp. 242-266
- Article
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What if the language of the world were not Globish but translation? This article proposes translation to be the best paradigm for human sciences, exportable to other fields of politics and society. As a know-how with differences, translation provides an articulation between the one and the universal, on the one hand, and diversity or singularities, on the other. Translation helps to think anew the nature-culture relationship, far from any rootedness or nationalism, and it practices a consistent relativism. The author starts from her own experience of the