The difficulties of having Arif Dirlik published in the French language, and why I felt compelled to do it.

The text is a continuation of a eulogy written in the memory of Professor Dirlik, made in Duke University, a year after his passing. It develops the three argument I perceived important in the difficulties I met to translate a part of Dirlik works in the French language: a complex relation to France's colonial past, a related reserve regarding radical theories, comforting a burying of Enlightenment ideals between inaudible intersectional quarrels and more complacent postures of conservatism. I try to show how the reading of Dirlik works help to better understand the connections between the riches of (post)colonial theory and the globalization of capitalism, with China in it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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