Habilitation Defense Speech: Translation, Criticism & Theory, between Immoderata cogitatio and Deconstruction

English translation of the speech delivered by Francesca Manzari on February 3, 2023, at Université Bordeaux Montaigne at the defense of her Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, “Translation, Criticism & Theory, between Immoderata cogitatio and Deconstruction.” The speech presents translation as a form of criticism, after Walter Benjamin, Giorgio Agamben and Jacques Derrida, describes the unpublished monograph Traduire la Canzone (Cavalcanti translated by C. T. Brooks, Pound and Zukofsky), and outlines a project for translating the troubadours that restores the polyphony of the Grand Chant, guided by the translator’s voie médiane (middle way). Translated by the author with the assistance of Claude (Anthropic). French original: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23497348.