Jean-René Ladmiral

Jean-René Ladmiral, 2010

Jean-René Ladmiral (born May 1, 1942 in Lisieux , in the Calvados department , France ) is a French German studies specialist, translator , translation scholar and philosopher.

Life

Jean-René Ladmiral spent his school days at the Lycée Henri IV . After studying from 1962 to 1965 and teaching at the University of Heidelberg and the Sorbonne in Paris, Jean-René Ladmiral devoted himself to research in the field of psychosociology of communication. To do this, he examined bilingual groups (German-French). In 1968 Jean-René Ladmiral began his work as a professor at the University of Paris-Nanterre for German philosophy . In 1987 he founded the university-affiliated CERT, a research center for translation. In 1972 he introduced a new discipline at the university: translation studies . He teaches German philosophy, philosophical German and leads courses in translation and translation studies at the Institut de Management et Communication Interculturels (ISIT Paris). In 1974 Jean-René Ladmiral received his doctorate on the subject of “Jürgen Habermas. Quatre essais sur la raison, la pratique et la technique: traduction et commentaire ».

In 1995 he obtained his habilitation on the subject of “La traductologie: de la linguistique à la philosophie”. In March 2010, Jean-René Ladmiral was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa by the Western University of Timişoara (Romania) for his extraordinary scientific achievements . In June 2010 a colloquium was held in honor of Jean-René Ladmiral with the title "Jean-René Ladmiral: une oeuvre en mouvement". Previously, based on an interview between the Institute for Translators and Interpreters in Beirut (ETIB) and Ladmiral, a book entitled "Jean-René Ladmiral, le dernier des archéotraductosaures interviewé par l'ETIB" was published.

Functions

• Professor at ISIT (Institut de Management et Communication Interculturels) and at the University of Paris-X Nanterre (since 1984)
• Head of the CRATIL research facility (Center de Recherche Appliquées sur la Traduction, l'Interprétation et le Langage) (since 2004)
• Head of the CERT (Center d'Études et de Recherches en Traduction) (since 1987)

Focus of his work

The work of Jean-René Ladmiral is considered to be interdisciplinary. They include topics from translation studies, the development of translation studies and translation processes, as well as philosophical content, which often has a clear reference to the areas of study in translation. Due to his philosophical training, Jean-René Ladmiral himself translated mainly the works of German philosophers such as Jürgen Habermas , Immanuel Kant or Friedrich Nietzsche into French (see translations).

Publications (selection)

• Traduire: Théorèmes pour la traduction. Payot, Paris 1979; Gallimard, Paris 1994, 2002. ISBN 978-2-07-073743-7
• in collaboration with Edmond Marc Lipiansky: La Communication interculturelle. Paris, Armand Colin, 1989, 1991 and 1995 (Bibliothèque européenne des sciences de l'éducation). ISBN 978-2-200-37181-4
• in collaboration with Dominique Château: Critique et théorie. Paris, L'Harmattan, 1996. ISBN 2-7384-4896-8
• La traduction: Philosophie d'une pratique. In: Christine Pagnoulle (ed.): Les gens du passage, Université de Liège. 1992, 120-136. ISBN 2-87233-006-2
• Babel & Logos. In: Hannelore Lee-Jahnke , Erich Prunč , (Eds.): At the intersection of philology and translation studies: Festschrift in honor of Martin Forstner. Peter Lang, Bern 2010 ISBN 978-3-0343-0374-3 pp. 171-201
• Antonio Lavieri, Michèle Lorgnet, Emilio Mattioli: Quand la traduction se réfléchit, Entretiens avec Jean-René Ladmiral. Collected and presented by Claudia Cortesi, Turin, L'Harmattan Italia, 2005. Cahiers du RAPT (Recherches sur les aspects psycholinguistiques de la traduction), n ° 5. ISBN 2-7475-9704-0
• Sourcier ou cibliste. Les Belles Lettres, Paris 2014 (= coll. Traductologiques, 3)

Translations

From the English

• Erich Fromm : Crise de la psychanalysis. Essais sur Freud, Marx et la psychologie sociale. Anthropos, Paris 1971 (Coll. Sociologie et connaissance). ISBN 2-228-33170-8

From the German

• Jürgen Habermas: La Technique et la science comme "idéologie". Gallimard, Paris 1973. TB Denoël Gonthier, Paris 1978 ISBN 2-07-071942-1
• Jürgen Habermas, translated in collaboration with F. Dastur and Marc B. de Launay: Profils philosophiques et politiques. Gallimard, Paris 1974 (coll. Les Essais) ISBN 2-07-070886-1
• Theodor W. Adorno , translated in collaboration with Éliane Kaufholz: Minima moralia; Reflections on the vie mutilée. Payot, Paris 1983 ISBN 2-228-89774-4
• Kant, translated in collaboration with Marc B. de Launay and Jean Marie Vaysse: Critique de la faculté de juger. Flammarion, 2000 ISBN 2-08-071088-5
• Jürgen Habermas, translated in collaboration with Marc B. de Launay: Après Marx. Fayard, Paris 1985 ISBN 2-01-278864-5

Web links

• Jean-René Ladmiral (biography) on the website of the Institut de Management et Communication Interculturels (ISIT), Paris
• List of publications at ISIT (PDF; 211 kB)
• The Archäotraduktosaurus looks back , by Vera Viehöver, Université de Liège , in ReLÜ , March 31, 2016 (about the life and work of Ladmirals, especially the book from 2014)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jean-René Ladmiral ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the official website of ISIT  
2. ↑ Official announcement about the award of the title on the official ISIT website ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Minutes of the colloquium ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Interview with Jean-René Ladmiral, published as a book