Spencer Hawkins
List of John Benjamins publications for which Spencer Hawkins plays a role.
Articles
2022 “Good translating is very hard work”: Karl Popper, translation theorist in spite of himself Target 34:1, pp. 3–36 | Article
Upon immigrating to New Zealand in 1937, Austrian-born philosopher of science Karl Raimund Popper lived and worked in the English-speaking world, where he published his major works in English. Life events forced him to engage in various forms of self-translation around the same time that he… read more
2020 Translaboration as legitimation of philosophical translation Translaboration: Exploring Collaboration in Translation and Translation in Collaboration, Alfer, Alexa and Cornelia Zwischenberger (eds.), pp. 239–260 | Article
Even highly regarded translators cannot escape the common suspicion that philosophical ideas are not communicable in foreign languages – a suspicion that plagues philosophical translation. Translators effectively counter this distrust of translation when they explicitly claim to have collaborated… read more
2017 Differential translation: A proposed strategy for translating polysemous language in German philosophy Translation and Interpreting Studies 12:1, pp. 116–136 | Article
Translators of German philosophy into English must often choose whether to express concrete or abstract meanings for polysemous German keywords. This article discusses “differential translation,” a widely underestimated strategy for representing polysemous words in translation. Disavowing both… read more