Only mostly knowing what I was getting into with this, I was surprised to learn about the translation (into English) history of this book which cut huge parts of the book out, renamed sections into meaningless terms, and worse, because of the translator’s ignorance of philosophy, rendered much of the philosophical language in the book useless through a flattening or approximation of the terms, when precision was almost certainly embedded in the difference. (I am thinking of the various ways in Heidegger that “desire” gets […]