THE TRANSLATOR FACED WITH THE NEOLOGICAL CREATION IN PETER SLOTERDIJK’S PHILOSOPHICAL WORK CRITIQUE OF CYNICAL REASON

Abstract

Peter Sloterdijk's contemporary philosophical book Kritik der zynischen Vernunft (Critique of Cynical Reason), published in Germany in 1983, was translated and published in Spain in 1989 by Taurus Humanidades. Its great success led the prestigious publishing house Siruela to acquire the rights and a new edition in 2003, revised and updated by the translator of Sloterdijk’s book into Spanish.  In my research, based on an extensive interview with the translator about his work, I analyze the difficulties of neological creation in the translation process of this philosophical work and I have also tried to assess the result under the three premises that the Czech theorist Jiři Levý established in his Umění překladu (The Art of Translation) to evaluate the translation of literary texts.