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>From: hiho@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark Peterson)
Subject: Re: Heidegger
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>From article <5710@skye.ed.ac.uk>, by jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton):
> In article <1991Nov25.065412.19783@trl.oz.au> louis@medici.trl.OZ.AU (Louis Denger) writes:
>>Et c'est bien evident que du point de vue empirique Anglo-Saxon,
>>Martin est impenetrable.
> 
> I regret that my ability in French is not sufficient for writing
> but only, sometimes, for reading.
> 
> It certainly seems to be the case that "continental" philosophy
> is harder to read than Anglo-Saxon "analytic" philosophy, at least
> as the two appear in English.  Are we suffering, perhaps, from bad
> translations?  Or just from impatience with a less direct style.


Bad translations are certainly a problem.  They're even worse from the
German -- or better -- more fraught with danger.  This is especially
so when mmuch of the early translation work was done by the British
and by philosophers who were not necessary sympathetic to what they
translated.

But the bottom line is that Anglo-American philosophy, logical
positivism, analytic philosophy -- whatever -- is just easier to
understand, that's all.

There are, of course, reasons why that's true.  ;-)

-- 
mark ce peterson   | uw-washington county  | hiho@csd4.csd.uwm.edu 
dept of philosophy | west bend, wi.  53095 | (414) 335-5200        

    "Philosophize with a hammer -- or get off the damn roof."


