A list of my published English translations of French philosophy.
I also translate articles for the popular philosophy web publication Philonomist, which is geared towards philosophy of economics and the workplace.
[In progress] Human Identity in Dialogue, by Claude Romano, translation of L’identité humaine en dialogue, Paris: Le Seuil, 2022.
“Nothingness Against the Death of God – Mallarmé’s Poetics after 1866,” by Quentin Meillassoux, in R. Horner and Cl. Romano (eds.), The Experience of Atheism: Phenomenology, Metaphysics and Religion, London: Bloomsbury, 2021.
“Preface to Narcissus, or the Lover of Himself,” by J.-J. Rousseau, in D. L. Williams et M. W. Maguire (eds.), Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Fundamental Political Writings, Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2018.
“This superb volume introduces students to Rousseau’s principal political writings. The editors draw attention to the diversity of interpretations elicited by Rousseau’s writings and offer a robust introduction to the main angles and nuances of Rousseau’s political thought. The volume also presents the welcome inclusion of the lesser-known preface to Rousseau’s play Narcissus, in a new translation by Samuel Webb, and a comprehensive appendix of excerpts of key texts written by Rousseau’s predecessors, his contemporaries, French revolutionaries and modern philosophers, who have all grappled with his provocative and probing ideas in intriguing and diverging ways. Anyone interested in inequality, politics, philosophy and the challenges of modernity will benefit from this elegant volume. It makes for essential reading for students and specialists in political science, philosophy and the humanities.” — Masano Yamashita, University of Colorado Boulder
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“The Flexible Rule of the Hermeneut,” by Claude Romano, Sophia, 56, no. 3, 2017.
“After the Lived-Body,” by Claude Romano, Continental Philosophy Review, 49, no. 4, 2016.
“Identity and Selfhood: Paul Ricœur’s Contribution and its Continuations,” by Claude Romano, in S. Davidson and M.-A. Vallée (eds.), Hermeneutics and Phenomenology in Paul Ricoeur, Springer International Publishing, 2016.
Samuel R. Webb 