Category Archive: French Translation

05 Nov

Translation from Gilles Deleuze’s Ontology: Véronique Bergen on the Syntheses of the Unconscious in Difference and Repetition

The following is an excerpt on the syntheses of the unconscious in Difference and Repetition from Véronique Bergen’s L’Ontologie de Gilles Deleuze, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2001. 325-327. Original translation by Taylor…
Monday, November 5, 2007 at 6:40 am By Taylor Adkins 2 Replies
05 Nov

Translation: Véronique Bergen’s Diagram of the Evolution of Deleuzian Concepts

The following is a translation of a section containing a table of the evolutions of the names of the transcendental field and the operators of differenciating liaisons from L’Ontologie de…
Monday, November 5, 2007 at 4:13 am By Taylor Adkins 2 Replies
04 Nov

Translation: Michel Serres and the Mathematization of Empiricism

The following is a translation of Michel Serres’s essay “Mathematization of Empiricism.” from Hermes II: L’Interférence. Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1972. 195-200. Original translation by Taylor Adkins 11/03/07. The law…
Sunday, November 4, 2007 at 4:24 pm By Taylor Adkins 1 Reply
03 Nov

Translation: Two Entries from Francois Zourabichvili’s book on Deleuze’s Vocabulary: Univocity and Pre-Individual Singularities

The following are two entries from Francois Zourabichvili’s book La vocabulaire de Deleuze. Paris: Ellipses, 2003. Original Translation by Taylor Adkins 11/03/07. Pre-individual Singularities * We cannot accept the alternative…
Saturday, November 3, 2007 at 3:16 am By Taylor Adkins 8 Replies
31 Oct

Translation of Vision-in-One: Additional Definition to Laruelle’s Dictionary of Non-Philosophy

The following is an entry from Francois Laruelle’s Dictionnaire de la non-philosophie. Paris: Editions Kimé, 1998. Original translation by Sid Littlefield, 10/31/07. Vision-in-One (One, One-in-One, Real) Primary concept of non-philosophy,…
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 at 7:50 pm By Taylor Adkins 3 Replies
24 Oct

Translation: Six Entries from Francois Laruelle’s Dictionary of Non-Philosophy

Francois Laruelle’s project (from the following entries) can, in my opinion, be best related to the previous translations I have posted on Alain Badiou and Albert Lautman. Badiou’s concept of…
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 10:02 am By Taylor Adkins 7 Replies
22 Oct

Translation: Jean-Hugues Barthélémy on Simondon, Bergson and Teilhard de Chardin

The following is the first half of chapter 1 from Jean-Hugues Barthélémy’s book Penser l’individuation: Simondon et la philosophie de la nature. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2005. p. 37-48. Original translation by…
Monday, October 22, 2007 at 12:14 pm By Taylor Adkins 7 Replies
19 Oct

Translation: Simondon, Completion of Section I, Chapter 1, The Individual and Its Physico-Biological Genesis

In the first place, singularities-events correspond to heterogeneous series which are organized into a system which is neither stable nor unstable, but rather ‘metastable,’ endowed with a potential energy wherein…
Friday, October 19, 2007 at 2:10 am By Taylor Adkins 6 Replies
17 Oct

Translation: Alain Badiou and the Concept of the Model: Introduction to a Materialist Epistemology of Mathematics

The following is the first three sections of Alain Badiou’s first theoretical book Le Concept de modèle: introduction à une épistémologie matérialiste des mathématiques. Paris: Maspero, 1968. p. 7-17 and…
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 6:09 am By Taylor Adkins 5 Replies
16 Oct

Translation: Albert Lautman’s Essay on the Notions of Structure and Existence in Mathematics

We should speak of a dialectics of the calculus rather than a metaphysics. By “dialectic” we do not mean any kind of circulation of opposing representations which would make them…
Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 6:17 pm By Taylor Adkins 5 Replies
10 Oct

Translation: Michel Serres and the Eternal Return

The following is Michel Serres’s essay “Eternal Return” in Hermes IV: Distribution. Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1977. pp. 115-124. Original translation by Taylor Adkins on 10/10/07 Philosophers glorify Nietzsche…
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 12:29 pm By Taylor Adkins 2 Replies
09 Oct

Translation: Francois Laruelle’s Beyond the Power Principle

The following is the preface from Francois Laruelle’s Beyond the Power Principle pp. 1-9 and is an original translation by Taylor Adkins 10/09/07. Stylistic Caution A: But if everyone knew…
Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at 2:59 pm By Taylor Adkins 8 Replies
03 Oct

French Translations: Works in Progress

My last six posts have all been translations; they range from philosophy of science to paradigms for approaching and studying Nietzsche. I plan to continue working on translating Boudot’s work…
Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 5:18 pm By Taylor Adkins 22 Replies
03 Oct

Translation: Simondon and the Physico-Biological Genesis of the Individual

Simondon, Gilbert. L’individu et sa genèse physico-biologique. Paris : Presses Universitaires de France, 1964. Original Translation by Taylor Adkins. Chapter One: Form and Matter Section I—Foundations of the Hylemorphic Model:…
Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 1:23 am By Taylor Adkins 6 Replies
28 Sep

Translation: Appendix to Boudot’s Reading in Nietzsche aujourd’hui: Round Table Discussion

Boudot, Pierre. “Discussion de la méthode dia-critique: une méthode de lecture de Zarathoustra.” Nietzsche aujourd’hui (2 vols.). Pierre Boudot et. alia. Publications du centre culturel de Cérisy-a-Salle (Paris: UGE, 1973),vol.…
Friday, September 28, 2007 at 4:02 am By Taylor Adkins 1 Reply
26 Sep

Translation: The Dia-critical Method: Pierre Boudot’s Method of Reading Zarathustra

Boudot, Pierre. “La méthode dia-critique: une méthode de lecture de Zarathoustra.” Nietzsche aujourd’hui (2 vols.). Pierre Boudot et. alia. Publications du centre culturel de Cérisy-a-Salle (Paris: UGE, 1973),vol. 1, pp.…
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at 3:07 am By Taylor Adkins 1 Reply
23 Sep

Translation: Introduction to Nietzsche’s Ontology: Pierre Boudot

Boudot, Pierre. L’ontologie de Nietzsche. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1971. The following is my translation of the introduction, pg. 5-9. I like the total renewal of Nieztsche’s thought in…
Sunday, September 23, 2007 at 5:26 pm By Taylor Adkins 1 Reply
22 Sep

Translation: Raymond Ruyer and the Genesis of Living Forms

Ruyer, Raymond. La genése des formes vivantes. Paris: Flammarion, 1958. The following is my translation of the introduction pg 5-9. Morphology, the study of forms and their arrangements, does not…
Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 11:40 pm By Taylor Adkins 3 Replies
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