Traducerea științelor umaniste franceze în România Schimbare de epocă – schimbare de stil de acțiune – noi alianțe (punct de vedere)
Translation of French humanities in Romania. Change of epoch – new actions – new alliances (point of view)

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with the case of French-Romanian translations from the Humanities field, published in Romania after 1989, and advocates the need of genuine translation policies, as both cultural and editorial strategies. Whereas during the 1990s, translations, especially those of reflexive books, were on the forefront of the pending book market, towards the 2000s, Romanian editors’ enthusiasm for French Humanities seemed to have disappeared. It was the end of the translations’ frenzy wave that coincided with the physical disappearance of great upholders of the so called “post-structuralist” thinking, better known under the Anglo-American label of “French Theory”. (Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze and, in different ways, Bourdieu, Baudrillard, Virilio etc.). The change of an era (which, paradoxically, represents a globalization devoid of “global” key figures), entails a change in the way of acting, in the requirement for the multiplicity and continuity of contracts, in actions and aids, in micro-policies, in other words a change in the cross-cutting fittings of different entities, dimensions, scales and definitions. Since this is a turning point for small publishing houses (both French and Romanian), one should call, together with other relevant actors such as publishing companies and translators, for institutional and procedural imagination in order to reinvent and relaunch a potential model of critical culture, so much needed during the “crisis-globality“ that characterizes the present era.

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