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The investigation's starting point is the significant German translation's movement from ... more The investigation's starting point is the significant German translation's movement from the begining of the 19th century and the German thinkers criticism against the French practice of translation. The Germans reproach the French to translate a foreign work as if the author was french, thus refusing the very principle of translation, that is to confront to the Otherness (Berman). In 1813, F. Schleiermacher points the philosophical issues raised by the conflict opposing these two different approaches of translation, revealing that not only does such a conflict mirror the opposition between different ways of conceiving rationality, the relationship between language and thought, subjectivity, but also different ways of conceiving culture, nation, and the relationship to the Other and to foreignness. In the light of such analysis, we question the ways of conceiving translation in France in the 17th and 18th century, in which the practice of the "belles infideles" pre...
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