Philip Wilson

Philosophy of Translation - Mysticism - Simone Weil - Translation after Wittgenstein - New Area Studies and Story

I worked in comprehensive schools for many years before returning to academia to do an MA and a PhD. I have taught in LDC at UEA and also in the School of Western Languages and Literature at ínönü University, Malatya, Turkey, and I am now Associate Professor of Philosophy and Translation in MLC.

I am also Admissions Director for MLC. I teach Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy Meets the Arts, and Translation Theory.

Academic publications include: Literary Translation: Redrawing the Boundaries (edited with Jean Boase-Beier and Antoinette Fawcett, Palgrave Macmillan);Translation after Wittgenstein (Routledge); The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Philosophy (edited with Piers Rawling, Routledge); and Translation and Mysticism (Routledge).Translations include: The Bright Rose: Early German Verse 800-1280 (Arc): Simone Weil's Venice Saved (with Silvia Panizza, Bloomsbury); The Norwich Histories of Alexander Neville (with Ingrid Walton and Clive Wilkins-Jones, Boydell); Evening Hour, a collection of the verse of Karl Marx; and Mirror of Obedience, a translation of the verse and selected prose of Simone Weil (with Silvia Caprioglio Panizza, Bloomsbury).

With Alice Leal I run the research network Philosophy In/As Translation and we have edited a special issue of Perspectives on the links between philosophy and translation. I am a member of the BCLT Research Group and of the New Area Studies Research Group, and sit on the internal board of the New Area Studies Research Centre. I am an Associate Member of the Research Centre for Philosophy of Translation, Padua.

My research interests include: the links between translation and philosophy; Simone Weil; Ludwig Wittgenstein; the German Baroque; and the philosophical novel.  I am currently working on monographs on the links between translation and philosophy (with Alice Leal), and on the relevance of the novel to New Area Studies (with Susan Hodgett).

With Saša Hrnjez, Alice Leal and Aleks Trklja I have founded the journal Philosophy of Translation (Taylor and Francis), with the double inaugural issue appearing in November 2025.