How does a language shape a question?
Compare conceptual translation, argument and literary voice. A shared question can expose differences without erasing them.
Ways into the question
Introduction to Languages & linguistics
What makes a pattern part of a language?
Begin with Kwasi Wiredu
Which assumptions enter a philosophical question through its language?
Begin with Rabindranath Tagore
How does an image connect a personal voice with a larger claim?
Begin with María Lugones
What would it take to understand someone without assimilating them to your own categories?
Thinkers to read
Kwasi Wiredu
Conceptual decolonisation, translation and political consensus. Examine how a philosophical question changes when it is framed in another language.
Rabindranath Tagore
Poetry and arguments about education, imagination and human relations. Attend to the differences between Bengali works and their English renderings.
María Lugones
Coalition, world-travelling and the colonial organisation of gender. Attend to the terms of an encounter and the standpoint from which it is described.