Sunday, February 06, 2005
(11:28 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Citation Help
In preparing my Derrida translation, I have run into a snag. He frequently cites Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling in French translation (Oeuvres Complètes, volume 5), and most of the time it's a simple matter to track down the quote. In a few cases, however, I'm just stumped. I've spent several hours trying to find the matching page numbers in the Princeton edition, and I've come up with nothing. Here are sentences in question; the page numbers in quotation marks are Derrida's. If anyone can help me on this, it'd be much appreciated. Otherwise, I'll just save it for last and ultimately just make up the page numbers and hope no one notices:And everything that he calls the teleological suspension of the ethical will be determined by the silence of Abraham, by his refusal of mediation, of generality, of the law of the public sector (juris publici), of politics or of the state, of the divine; the divine is only the “phantom” of God (159), as the generality of the ethical is only the bloodless specter of faith; whereas Abraham is not, he should not, he cannot be a “phantom, a person paraded around the market-place” [fantôme, un personnage de parade sur la place -- I have no idea what this actually means in English, so I'm obviously having trouble finding it in the Princeton translation] (144).Ideally, someone would have easy access to the French translations, which would ideally have the Danish page numbers along the side. I can't think of any possible reason why an American library would have the complete works of Kierkegaard translated into French, though.
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