Otherwise – translation on political -rhetorical verges of fidelity and survival

Abstract

Taking as its starting point a line of Antigone, by Sophocles, translated by Hölderlin and then to exhaustion reworked by Heidegger in his controversial summer course in 1942 on the hymn by the German poet, Der Ister, I intend in this paper to discuss these two derridean instances (fidelity and survival) as possible undecidable translation and of all criticism of translation. The stranger and the strangeness of the other received by the translated text will therefore be the focus to be addressed in this essay, trying to re-think the act of translation as a forgivable search of the writing (and thus entered in the perjury of the text of other) and their bonds and verges.