Re: BHA: Delivered up to the world

[Jan Straathof <janstr@xxxxxxx>]

Dear Mervyn, thanks for the beautiful Adorno lines,

you wrote i.a.:

>Here is the text of the 'Finale', broken up into 'verses',

indeed, it's very appropriate to edit this text the poetical way you did,
I believe Max Horkheimer praised Minima Moralia as Adorno's true
magnum opus, not only because of its philosophical (and analytical)
merites but moreso because it examplified the artistic, poetic and
playful but deeply tragic style typical of Adorno's personallity and
thinking.

i remember the story of the first translation of the Moralia in dutch
in the late 60, the publisher had offered the german manuscript to
several renowned translaters, but none of them accepted the task,
after a long search they finally found a poet -Maurits Mok- who was
willing to do the translation, and he did a wonderful job, however
some critics then found he had allowed himself too much poetical
freedom, esp. because Mok had smuggled in some own neologism.

- what's your opinion on his "Thesis against Occultism" (MM:151)
related to Bhaskar's current (partial) exotic realism.

yours,
Jan




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