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[leafofgrass]

As livingfossilcited me in his response to the final question, I felt somewhat compelled to answer. My responses may prove somewhat different from the usual, however, since I trade more in philosophy than in literature. Let's see, shall we?

You're stuck inside Farenheit 451, which book do you want to be?

Martin Heidegger's Being and Time because therein

Comments

[niveau]

Husserl as a thinker is a great read, but as an author he is terrible! The translations by Moran seem to have been the best I've come across.

[leafofgrass]

Oh, I agree, but those are some BIG books! I'm sure that the two volume set would keep me busy for QUITE some time, mining those pages for hidden nuances that only someone with too much time and nothing else to read can put into a text.

I haven't spent any time actually comparing the translations (in fact, I was unaware that there was more than one translator of Logical Investigations, but I have found in lookin at the German that most translators suffer from "I'm going to make this more technical than it has to be syndrome." This does not contribute to readablitiy, obviously! Also, I've found that some serious complications arise in that Husser makes some distinctions in German words that get translated as the same word into English (e.g. Gefülen and Empfinden). I guess this is why they make us learn languages to get the ol' PhD, eh?

[niveau]

Or, at the very least, learn a way to further our hermeneutics of understanding.

[29usc151]

I'll jump on this when I'm back in town on Monday.

[leafofgrass]

Righteous, yo!

[apperception]

apperception: It would be a nice glimpse into a rather odd piece of real estate

Awww! :)