DIFFÉRANCE DERRIDY. CZY BŁĄD DAJE SIĘ (WY)TŁUMACZYĆ?

• Authors: Andrzej Marzec

Title variants

EN

Derridian différance. Is a Spelling Mistake Translatable?

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article examines Polish translations of the Derridian term différance. Polish philosophical discourse uses the following renditions of différance: róż(ni(c)oś)ć by Bogdan Banasiak, różNICa by Tadeusz Sławek, gra-na-zwłokę-o-różnicę by Stanisław Cichowicz and the most popular: różnia by Joanna Skoczylas. Should a mistake be deliberately committed in Polish, as it was done in the original? Or should it be corrected, and if so – how to explain the correction? The suggestion to translate the controversial concept by means of a Polish neologism, the neographism rórznica, may be productive and such a solution may be open to a number of interpretations. Thank to its ambivalence, rórznica introduces a majority of Derridian motifs and may generate new ideas and concepts. Moreover, it allows a successful critique of logocentrism and phonocentrism of Western philosophy and a subversion of binary oppositions, hard subject and desire of self-presence. Finally, the misspelled différance may be viewed as an example of grammatical Otherness.

Keywords

EN

deconstruction; Derrida; différance; różnia; rórznica; spelling mistake in translation

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Przekładaniec. Półrocznik Katedry UNESCO do Badań nad Przekładem i Komunikacja Miedzykulturowa UJ
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 2(24)
• Pages: 263-280

Dates

online

2011-12-10

Contributors

author

Andrzej Marzec

• Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Szkoła Nauk Społecznych Instytutu Filozofi i i Socjologii PAN w Warszawie.

Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/16891864PC.11.016.0215