10 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American philosopher and translator who produced English translations of Leibniz's philosophical writings.
English translator who produced major translations of Walter Benjamin and Norbert Elias, making their work accessible to anglophone readers.
American scholar of German-Jewish literature who translated Illuminations — the most widely read collection of Walter Benjamin's essays — introducing Benjamin to the English-speaking world.
American philosopher who has produced new translations of Aristotle aimed at recovering the experiential sense of his vocabulary rather than Latinized technical terms.
Chinese-American science fiction writer who wrote The Grace of Kings and The Wall of Storms (Dandelion Dynasty), translated Liu Cixin's Three-Body Problem into English, and whose short fiction The Paper Menagerie won the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards.
American philosopher who translated Leibniz's writings on logic and the art of thinking.
American Romanist and scholar of Italian literature who has contributed to the translation of Giorgio Agamben and the study of Dante.
German-American philosopher at Princeton who translated Nietzsche's complete works into English and wrote the definitive English-language Nietzsche biography — rescuing Nietzsche from Nazi appropriation by demonstrating that the Will to Power manuscript was assembled by his anti-Semitic sister Elisabeth.
Victorian translator of Hegel's Logic into English — his translations made Hegel accessible to British idealists.