Professor Seán Hand

Seán Hand's interests in translation principally relate to his rendering into English of three books of philosophy as well as numerous essays by French contemporary thinkers.

Book-length translations

1. Eric Blondel, Nietzsche. The Body and Culture, a translation, with glossary, London, Athlone, 1991, 353 pp. ISBN hardback 0804715513, paperback 0804719063. Reprinted (Bloomsbury) 2000.
2. Emmanuel Levinas, Difficult Freedom. Essays on Judaism, a translation, with glossary, London, Athlone, 1990, 306 pp. ISBN hardback 0485113791, paperback (Johns Hopkins) 1997 080185783X. Reprinted 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015.
3. Gilles Deleuze, Foucault, a translation, with introduction, London, Athlone, 1988, xiv + 157 pp. ISBN hardback 0485113457, paperback (Continuum) 1999, 2006 0826490786.

Chapter-length translations

1. (with Furst), ‘Philippe Hamon on the Major Features of Realist Discourse’, in Realism, ed. L. R. Furst, London and New York, Longman, 1992, pp. 166-85.
2. ‘Emmanuel Levinas: Reflections on the Philosophy of Hitlerism’, Critical Inquiry, 17 (1990), 62-71. Reprinted in Difficult Justice. Commentaries on Levinas and Politics, eds A. Horowitz and G. Horowitz, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, ISBN hardback 080208009X, pp. 3-11.
3. (with Temple), ‘Ethics as First Philosophy’, pp. 75-87; ‘The Transcendence of Words’, pp. 144-49; ‘The Other in Proust’, pp. 160-65; ‘Judaism’, pp. 250-52; ‘Judaism and the Present’, pp. 252-9; ‘The State of Israel and the Religion of Israel’, pp. 259-63; and ‘Means of Identification’, pp. 263-6, all in The Levinas Reader, ed. S. Hand, Oxford, Blackwell, 1989.
4. ‘Talking about Polylogue’, pp. 110-17; and ‘Sexual Difference’, pp. 118-30, both in French Feminist Thought, ed. T. Moi, Oxford, Blackwell, 1987, ISBN hardback 0631149724, paperback 0631149732. Reprinted in Twentieth-Century Transitions, ed. P. Waugh, London, Arnold, 1995. ‘Sexual Difference’ reprinted in The Irigaray Reader, ed. M. Whitford, Oxford, Blackwell, ISBN hardback 0631170421, paperback 063117043X, pp. 165-77.
5. ‘From Symbol to Sign’, pp. 62-73; ‘Semiotics: A Critical Science and/or a Critique of Science’, pp. 74-88; ‘About Chinese Women’, pp. 138-59; ‘The True-Real’, pp. 214-37; ‘Why the United States?’, pp. 272-91; ‘A New Type of Intellectual: the Dissident’, 292-300, all in The Kristeva Reader, ed. T. Moi, Oxford, Blackwell, 1986, ISBN hardback 0231063245, paperback 0631149317.
6. ‘The Tensor’, Oxford Literary Review, 7 (1985), 25-40. Reprinted in The Lyotard Reader, ed. A. Benjamin, Oxford, Blackwell, 1989, ISBN hardback 0631163387, paperback 1991 0631163395, pp.1-18.

Talks relating to translation

'Translating Pain', keynote address at Monash University, August 2015.