Della rovina

The article outlines the terms in which the ethics of translation is always a political act. Beyond the possibility of nationalistic identity, the language is always a meeting with the other, the different, the incompatible. Through Hölderlin’s reflections on his own version of Sophocles’ Antigone, the essay dwells particularly on the ethical implications of the “ruin”-theme that Antigone represents for the polis and that Hölderlin performs on his own language.