[lbo-talk] Re: Derrida Was No Aristotle

[Jeffrey Fisher]

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 07:51:24 -0700 (PDT), Chris Doss
<lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> --- Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com> wrote:
> i agree with your point below about translation (that
> literal
> word-for-word rendering is not the job of the
> translator, etc.), but i
> wonder why you think aristotle's use of language made
> any more "sense"
> to his students than they do to us.
> 
> ---
> 
> This was what I was saying. The violence Aristotle
> does to Greek is considerable. "Entelechia" is a case
> in point -- "holding-in-the-goal." That just ain't
> Greek. Like I said before, it's very close to what
> Heidegger does with German. A good translation should
> capture that IMHO. Otherwise it's like translating
> Finnegans Wake and making it fit the rules of grammar.
> 

hey, i followed you. i'm just the reinforcements, here.

j