Publication: Thinking as Translation. The Silent Dialogue with Myself as Another
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2014
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Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
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In this paper, I argue that the activity of translating can be found at the very core of
philosophizing, in the experience of thinking itself. Firstly, I argue that a genuine translation entails thinking
together with the translated author, by imagining a dialogue with him or her. Secondly, I argue that thinking
itself is a process of translation. Starting form Plato’s and Aristotle’s depictions of thinking as dialogue, I
argue that we can find a similar treatment of thinking in Heidegger’s analysis of the “voice of conscience”,
and I show how the dialogue with my own conscience has a translative effect: it transports me from the
inauthenticity of my everyday life towards my possible and better self. Thus, not only translation, but thinking
too is a form of hospitality, the thinker being a host for his own possible self.
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Congreso Internacional celebrado en la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid del 24 al 26 de septiembre de 2012
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Thinking, Translation, Hospitality, Foreignization, Ereignis, Heidegger
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Pensar la traducción: la filosofía de camino entre las lenguas. Actas del Congreso (Talleres de comunicaciones). Madrid, septiembre de 2012. Madrid: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2014. Pp. 152-160