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>when the translator includes a note to account for an authors irredeemably sexist/racist comment "from our contemporary point of view".

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>>11269080
>nigger
>translator apologizes
>mother fucking cuck

>> No.11269102

>not handwriting copies of said book but replacing apologies with affirmations
Niggers

>> No.11269116

>>11269080
name one example

>> No.11269130

>>11269080
>.wedned the aithorf renemners someting niwne casres abiye

>> No.11269131

>>11269116
how should I know I'm not a fucking bookfag

>> No.11269133

>>11269116
Extremely common in classical and ancient greek texts w/r/t women.

>> No.11269147

>>11269116
the translators intro to Kant offers an apology for his reliance on/use of phrenology.

>> No.11269153

>>11269133
name one

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>>11269116

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>>11269199

>> No.11269212

>>11269199
So, you're saying you're mad that we have Science now?

>> No.11269218

>>11269131
based. i hate books

>> No.11269220

>>11269212
What the fuck does
>a woman longing for a man
have to do with science?

>> No.11269225

>>11269153
Fagles' translation of the Oresteia. They also do the same with violence etc.

>> No.11269233

>>11269199

How is that even sexist? Inaccurate yes, but not sexist.

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>>11269233
I wouldn't expect an intellectual like the translator to know the difference.

>> No.11269259

>>11269131
Kek this and the post you replied to needs to be a goddamn /lit/ banner

>> No.11269331

>>11269080
I'm pretty sure in the Penguin Classic version of Villette there's something in the introduction about Bronte using physiognomy to talk shit about the Irish.
It's very odd, because she's half Irish, but it makes sense when considering that her self insert character's face is described as "partially good and partially bad."

>> No.11269538

>>11269080
If I ever write a book, I'm including a forward nullifying any future forward and doubling down on any hypothetical isms past present or future, and apologizing for not being more *ist

>> No.11269641

>>11269116
I was reading beyond Good and Evil and the introduction was calling Nietzsche's views on women and race outdated and absurd. Let me see if I can find the actual quote.

>> No.11269652

>>11269080
Good. Literally only immature nazis racists would want it any other way. Grow up.

>> No.11269660

>>11269641
"Enjoying this book properly not only means laughing with Nietzsche, but also laughing at Nietzsche. For unless we adopt this reading strategy, some things -his pages about women, for example- are almost unreadable...These may not be the most embarrassing statements one can come across in the history of Western philosophy, but still embarrassing enough."

>> No.11269762

>>11269080
> author followed the latest trends in philosophical and scientific thought at the time, they changed greatly since then, but our modern point of view is final one that will last forever

>> No.11269770

>>11269199
>irredeemably
The worst part of living in a post-Christian world.

>> No.11269775

>>11269199
it seems strange to include this critique when im sure you wouldn't make the same statement about his obviously false cosmology.