Re: Kant's enlightenment

From: Hubert Mania (humania@t-online.de)
Date: Wed Aug 20 2003 - 00:59:41 MDT

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    Damien wrote:

    > I just did a free rendering into somewhat idiomatic English of the great
    > philosopher Kant's key essay (for a German newspaper) on the topic of the
    > Enlightenment.
    [...snip]

    Excellent rendering, Damien. You know, sometimes it's kind of a drag to
    read Kant's original writings. You get the impression he should have had a
    more self-confident editor to "enlighten" some of his obscure paragraphs. On
    the other hand it's fascinating to experience the thoughts of a genius in an
    age where publishing complex essays with months or years of delay seemed
    to be the main medium to communicate.

    Would be interesting to know the name of the newspaper you did that
    rendering for.

    Cheers

    Hubert

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