Derrida: a romantic philosophy of translation

Although Derrida has only two articles dedicated specifically to this subject, it can be affirmed that all his thought contains from the beginning a particular theory of the translation, both diffuse and omnipresent, while the translation is an operation inherent to the language itself As functioning, and the life of written texts. As he himself states in a letter to his Japanese translator, the question of deconstruction is the question of translation. It is not only an extended theory of translation as an interpretation of the signs which always entails, to a greater or lesser extent, a slippage from a network of meanings constructed earlier, whether by the author, criticism, history, A certain linguistic code, but of something at once more diffuse, more complex, more subtle, and more interior to the language itself: it is that the language calls, interpellates, asks to be translated. This call of the text and the language to become another through the intermediation of a reader-translator who would operate as an empty device of a movement of the senses, productive and agent at the same time, this system that crosses the so-called Subject-system to reach To be or to come, has a deeply historical roots in the course of the so-called "literary theory" and is of purely romantic origin. It is that device that we will deal with here.