Researcher
Sonja Lavaert
- Research Expertise:
I Research topics pertaining to Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, ETHU & CLIC, HARP & LIST:
* Early modern political philosophy (i.a. Machiavelli, Spinoza, Spinoza's circle); philosophy of Enlightenment; clandestine philosophy (e.a. Traité des trois imposteurs); freethought
* Genealogy of political concepts; contemporary (radical) political philosophy (Agamben, Castoriadis, Negri, Virno); critique of modernity (i.a. early Frankfurt school, Arendt); Italian theory
* Political theory and language practice (i.a. Gramsci)
* Critical theory, art and language
* Semiotics and philosophy of language; aesthetics; philosophy and literature
II Research topics pertaining to Translation studies, CLIC, LIST:
* Translation and ethics
* Translation and Enlightenment; translation and the history of ideas/genealogy of political concepts
* Translation and philosophy
* Cultural transfer; cultural & literary translation
* (Un)translatability; Translation and mother tongue; Retranslation
* Critical theory (postcolonialism, gender) and translation
* Semiotics and translation
* Translation, language and society
- Keywords:Philosophy (incl. moral science), Language and literature (incl. information, documentation, library and archive sciences), History, Fine arts (incl. archaeology)
- Disciplines:Early modern literature, Phenomenology, Philosophy of language, History of ideas, Philosophical aesthetics, Social and political philosophy, History of philosophy, Translation studies, Interpreting studies, Continental philosophy, Discourse studies, Philology
- Users of research expertise:
I Research topics pertaining to Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, ETHU & CLIC, HARP & LIST:
* Early modern political philosophy (i.a. Machiavelli, Spinoza, Spinoza's circle); philosophy of Enlightenment; clandestine philosophy (e.a. Traité des trois imposteurs); freethought
* Genealogy of political concepts; contemporary (radical) political philosophy (Agamben, Castoriadis, Negri, Virno); critique of modernity (i.a. early Frankfurt school, Arendt); Italian theory
* Political theory and language practice (i.a. Gramsci)
* Critical theory, art and language
* Semiotics and philosophy of language; aesthetics; philosophy and literature
II Research topics pertaining to Translation studies, CLIC, LIST:
* Translation and ethics
* Translation and Enlightenment; translation and the history of ideas/genealogy of political concepts
* Translation and philosophy
* Cultural transfer; cultural & literary translation
* (Un)translatability; Translation and mother tongue; Retranslation
* Critical theory (postcolonialism, gender) and translation
* Semiotics and translation
* Translation, language and society