Geoff Bennington on the new edition of Of Grammatology

Peter Gratton links to and discusses Geoff Bennington’s long review of the revised translation of Derrida’s Of Grammatology. Some interesting discussion of the process of translation along the way.

Peter Gratton's avatarPHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR

Bennington’s essay sadly matched my own feelings when I received the book a couple of weeks ago: I checked the places that were notorious for mistranslation and they were still there again, though Bennington has gone beyond the call of duty to look at the intro and Spivak’s new afterward as well as the translation of the first chapter and more. What to do? It’s obvious that students will be stuck with this translation and its pagination, even as I want amazon.ca to take my return and allow me better purchases. Bennington’s essay has a great title that gives a nice kick when you get the punchline. This is really too bad and I trust Bennington as a great translator of Derrida. The essay is also good on why this translation can be misleading in terms of recent realisms–a real benefit. Also, it’s notable that the Derrida Seminars Translation Project (DSTP)…

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