Topic: Max Weber
Anonymous A started this discussion 10 years ago #56,513
One hundred and fifty years ago A. F, Tytler set forth three Principles
of Translation: To give a complete transcript of the original ideas; to
imitate the styles of the original author; and to preserve the ease of the
original text. In presenting selections from Max Weber to an EngHsh-
reading public, we hope we have met the first demand, that of faithfulness
to the original meaning. The second and the third demands are often
disputable in translating German into English, and, in the case of Max
Weber, they are quite debatable.
The genius of the German language has allowed for a twofold stylistic
tradition. One tradition corresponds to the drift of English towards brief
and grammatically lucid sentences. Such sentences carry transparent trains
of thought in which first things stand first. Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg
Christoph Lichtenberg, and Franz Kafka are eminent among the repre-
sentatives of this tradition.
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