Revolution and Despair

Asef Bayat    Sunday, January 25, 2015 Things in the Middle East usually appear far worse than they really are when looked at from the outside. But  on my recent visit to Egypt — as I talked and listened to people, watched local television, read daily papers and made observations  — it became clear that revolutionaries were going through painful

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Translatorial hexis: The politics of Pinkard’s translation of Hegel’s Phenomenology

Radical Philosophy 186 (Jul/Aug 2014)  David Charlston Most branches of philosophy and many other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences studied in the anglophone academy draw on texts written in languages other than English and therefore rely on the products of translation, especially translations of historical, European philosophy. However, surprisingly little philosophical attention has been paid to the role

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