In Praise of Treason
Traduttore, Traditore. What if the adored adage which is repeated ad nauseam held a hidden philosophical truth? Based on Berman, Derrida, Barthes and Deleuze, this paper aims at proving this paradox, by sketching a theory of betrayal and gift which would show that these two notions are not antagonistic, but that they could rather support an ethics of translation stressing the powers and limits of language, similar to those of love.