On this page you find information about my translations. I specialize in French-English translations of philosophical and scientific texts. Your inquiries or comments are always welcome!

Employment

• Research Engineeer, National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, France
  Associate Editor, l'Année Philologique
  My duties at the multilingual, international periodical, which publishes an annual bibliography of scholarly books and articles concerning Classical Studies (Greek and Latin language and literature, ancient philosophy, archaeology, etc.), include revising the contributions of colleagues in several European languages, proofreading, and indexing.

• From 1992-1997, I taught as a Sessional Lecturer in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada

• B. A., Philosophy (First class).
  Concentrations: Greek Philosophy, 19th-century German Philosophy; 1982; University of Victoria

• M. A., Classics; Concentrations: Greek and Latin language and literature; archaeology;
  Thesis: Introduction to the Philosophy of Porphyry; 1989; University of Victoria

• Doctorate, Histoire de la Philosophie (mention; très bien, avec félicitations unanimes du Jury)
  Dissertation (in French): "The lost Commentary on Aristotle's Categories by the Neoplatonist Porphyry of Tyre (c. 234-305 CE)"; 2000, École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne), Section des Sciences Religieuses, 45, rue des Écoles, Paris 75005, France

French to English
• Pierre Hadot, Plotinus, or the Simplicity of Vision, translated by Michael Chase, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
  A translation of P. Hadot, Plotin ou la simplicité du regard, Paris: Études Augustiniennes, 1993. In consultation with the author, I re-translated from the Greek all citations from the Enneads of Plotinus.

• Pierre Hadot, Philosophy as a Way of Life. Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault, edited with an Introduction by Arnold I. Davidson, translated by Michael Chase, Oxford/Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, 1995.
  A translation of Pierre Hadot, Exercices spirituels et philosophie antique, Paris: Études Augustiniennes, 1987². In consultation with the author, I re-translated into English all quotations in Greek, Latin, and German.

• Pierre Hadot, The Inner Citadel, translated by Michael Chase, Harvard University Press 1998.
  A translation of Pierre Hadot, La Citadelle intérieure. Introduction aux Pensées de Marc Aurèle (Paris: Fayard, 1992).

• Pierre Hadot, What is ancient philosophy? translated by Michael Chase, Harvard: Harvard University Press, Spring 2002
  A translation of Pierre Hadot, Qu'est-ce que la philsophie antique?, Paris: Gallimard, 1995.

• In addition, I have translated from French to English numerous articles and conference papers by my CNRS colleagues Luc Brisson, Philippe Hoffmann, Roshdi Rashed, and Ilsetraut Hadot.

• Current projects nearing completion include English translations of a revised verson of I. Hadot, Le problème du néoplatonisme alexandrin (Paris 1978); R. Rashed, Géométrie et dioptrique au X^e siècle.

  Ancient Greek to English

• Simplicius, Commentary on Aristotle's Categories I-IV, translated by Michael Chase, London: Duckworth Spring/Summer 2002.
  Part of the series entitled "Ancient Commentaries on Aristotle", under the editorship of R.R.K. Sorabji of Kings College, London.

  Ancient Greek to French

• Porphyre, Les Sentences, par L. Brisson, M.-O. Goulet-Cazé, M. Chase, R. Goulet, J.-M. Flamand, S. Matton, G. Madec, D. O'Brien, J. Pépin, A.-Ph. Segonds, & Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2 vols., scheduled for 1997.
  In this collective work, my contributions centre around the translation and commentary of Porphyry of Tyre's Sentence 33

• Languages spoken:
  English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian.

• Languages read:
  English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, Ancient & Modern Greek, Latin.
  I am currently attempting to learn Arabic.

Michael Chase, e-mail: goya@uvic.ca
For more detailed information please see my French CV

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