Standish, P; (2018) Language, translation, and the hegemony of English. Tetsugaku. International Journal of the Philosophical Association of Japan , 2 pp. 1-12.

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Abstract

This discussion begins from philosophy’s tendencies towards forms of universalism, taking this as a backdrop for the consideration of ways that philosophy’s own development has been marked by the vicissitudes of circumstance and translation. Such contingencies in fact extend to the very operation of language itself, albeit that this is likely to have been occluded by those tendencies within philosophy towards abstraction and the idealization of thought. Careful attention to examples of the problematics of translation within philosophy provides a means of seeing the importance of a different, more contextually attuned construction of the subject, in which a necessary pluralism of language and thought is more properly acknowledged. The necessity in the experience of translation of the exercise of judgement is recognized, and the importance of this for practical reason is stressed. This means that those who are monolingual may be morally blind, especially in circumstances of linguistic hegemony

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