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EXISTENTIALIST PHILOSOPHIES AN INTRODUCTION by EMMANUEL MOUNIER. TRANSLATORS PREFACE: MY first difficulty in making this translation has been the age-old one of conveying concepts, and especially abstract concepts, from one language to another. In my case, the difficulty has been increased because many of the Existentialist concepts are, apparently, difficult to express, even in French. A second difficulty has been style. Most educated Frenchmen auto matically write in what might be termed the classical style when dealing with academic subjects. The equivalent English style has been largely abandoned by present-day British writers on academic subjects, though traces of it persist in, say, leading articles and sports reports of The Times, which occasionally have to be re-read here and there before the meaning is clear. Moreover, in his desire to give a complete and unbiased summary of Existentialist philosophies, M. Mounier writes many long and often extremely complex sentences. The French logical mind may be capable of grasping at a glance the complete meaning of such sentences, but modern English composition tries to avoid them. Perhaps my greatest difficulty has been in dealing with the complexity of some of M. Mourner s sentences, and I am aware that some parts of my translation may make difficult reading, even though, as I hope, the meaning is clear. I can only say that it is difficult, without complete recasting, to break down sentences which have only one prin cipal clause, and that complete recasting involves the risk of committing the unpardonable sin of interfering with the meaning of the original text. There is a good deal of technical jargon in the Existentialist vocabulary, though its effect on the reader may be less mystifying than might be imagined. I have, after consultation with a Frenchman, tran slated most of this quite literally though it is possible that my phraseology may occasionally conflict with other English translations dealing with Existentialist philosophies. As far as standard technical terms of Philosophy are concerned, there is evidence that sometimes Frenchmen do not, perhaps, mean the same thing as we do by the same term. For instance, I am not at all sure what exactly is meant in this book by terms such as transcendence and psycho-analysis. There is also the famous Existentialist word angoisse, which I translate as anguish. I am quite aware, firstly, that angoisse does not mean exactly the same thing as anguish, and secondly, that angoisse or anguish by no means conveys what Existentialists mean when they use the term in their particular technical sense. I also know that some translators have used the word dread as a translation of angoisse. The plain fact is that the word angoisse seems to mean some sort of mental agitation which, so far, has been observed only by Existentialist philo sophers, and, consequently, no word in any language conveys what is meant by it. Thus, wherever the word anguish appears in this book, it must be taken as referring to this particular form of mental agitation experienced by some Danish, German and French philosophers, and, presumably, observed by them in others. All one can suggest to help the British reader is that it seems to be a form of mental agitation which contains an element of what we understand by the term anguish. M. Mounier quotes from many French and German authors, and, of course, from Kierkegaard. As far as I know, only the works of Kier kegaard, Nietzsche and M. Berdyaev have been translated into English. I have, therefore, suggested to the publishers of this book that a list of all the works quoted from by M...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781443721202
  • Publisher: McGiffert Press
  • Publisher Imprint: McGiffert Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 156
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1443721204
  • Publisher Date: 04 Nov 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 332 gr

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