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Title: Critical read, sloppy edition
Review: Even those unschooled in Heideggerean thought and language can make it through Levinas' short text (@ 20 pp) -- but the translator (and by extension the publisher) failed in making a clear map for the reader with regard to the notes; which is precisely the purpose of notes to the text. When not flat-out unreadable -- or "sloppy" -- they're flat-out wrong, and one of Levinas' key concepts gets attributed to a nonexistent text, per the confused translation of "Le Temps [sic] et l'autre" as "TA" which the book otherwise identifies (more or less consistently) as "TO." Perhaps what's most irritating is the excessive intervention by the translator into the text, who in addition to knowing French and English, also apparently knows Levinas better than himself.
