Jeffrey's review
On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Jeffrey's review
On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo by Friedrich Nietzsche
Jeffrey's review
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The subject of my dissertation, yet I still recommend it to others. Can there be higher praise?
Incidentally, in terms of translations, I'd stick with Kaufmann (and Hollingdale, or, in this case, Kaufmann and Hollingdale). I haven't compared every line of Kaufmann's translations with the original German, but when I have, I have without fail been extremely impressed by his ability to render Nietzsche's German so literally into such splendid English, often ingeniously (his translation of Beyond Good and Evil being perhaps his best). Inevitably there will be room for improvement here or there, but on the whole, I don't Kaufmann will be surpassed in terms of either fidelity or stylistic verve and beauty any time soon. Newer translations are always more clumsy, awkward, and annoying, now too informal, now too stilted, often adopting an irritating preening tone. And they're often actually less literal than Kaufmann (or Hollingdale, as the case may be), since the only way to avoid sim...more
Incidentally, in terms of translations, I'd stick with Kaufmann (and Hollingdale, or, in this case, Kaufmann and Hollingdale). I haven't compared every line of Kaufmann's translations with the original German, but when I have, I have without fail been extremely impressed by his ability to render Nietzsche's German so literally into such splendid English, often ingeniously (his translation of Beyond Good and Evil being perhaps his best). Inevitably there will be room for improvement here or there, but on the whole, I don't Kaufmann will be surpassed in terms of either fidelity or stylistic verve and beauty any time soon. Newer translations are always more clumsy, awkward, and annoying, now too informal, now too stilted, often adopting an irritating preening tone. And they're often actually less literal than Kaufmann (or Hollingdale, as the case may be), since the only way to avoid sim...more
