The problem is, translation is dreadfully hard work. It took me a summer to translate the section on the Fetishim of commodities. I haven't the time for that sort of work any more. My German probably isn't good enough anymore, either. (Though I could get it back up tos peed if I had the time (ha!). Hans Ehrbar at Utah Econ, btw, has a very good translation of the first few chapters of Cap. I, better than anything published, that he uses in his on-line class. --jks
>
>If this is true - that most published translations of Heidegger are not
>good
>- perhaps it would be an interesting project to create a new version using
>the open source software collaborative approach - eventually creating an
>excellent, freely available translation in electronic format (what more
>could you want?). Involving many people would make the task manageable,
>and
>checking the translation would fit well into the beta-testing stage.
>Sourceforge would probably work perfectly well as a forum for doing this...
>
>David.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Justin Schwartz [mailto:jkschw at hotmail.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 10:42 PM
>>
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>
>> As far as not learning German, it's your loss. The published
>> translations of
>> Marx rage from workmanlike to unreliable, and that includes
>> the "approved"
>> Moore and Aveling translations. I have a translation of the
>> Section of
>> Capital I on the Fetishism of Commodities that I did some
>> years ago for a
>> study group I was in; it's better--at least more
>> accurate--than anything in
>> print. The translation in print are pretty bad. I should
>> probably try to
>> have my version published. The better translations of Hegel
>> (e.g., Miller,
>> Knox) are OK (the worse, like Baille, are awful), but Hegel doesn't
>> translate very well at all. I wish I had time to learn Latin
>> and Greek too.
>> I envy Joanna for knowing them.
>>
>> --jks
>
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