Fwd: Dialectic of Enlightenment translations

[Ralph Dumain]

>To: marxistphilosophy@yahoogroups.com
>From: "marcus battle" <marcusb49@excite.com>
>Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 17:38:59 -0400 (EDT)
>Subject: [marxistphilosophy] a lurker chimes in...
>Reply-To: marxistphilosophy@yahoogroups.com
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>greetings all,
>
>my name is marcus battle and i am entering the third year of my ph.d work 
>here at the university of memphis.
>
>now that the introduction is out of the way, i have a pretty straight 
>forward question...well, a couple actually--first, i heard from a prof. 
>here that there is a new translation of The Dialectic of Enlightenment and 
>i was wondering if anyone on the list has checked it out yet. second, if 
>so, i would very much like to know a) what the problems were with the 
>previous translation and b) how this one is an improvement (if at all). i 
>haven't read the book but, having suffered through another round of 
>comprehensive exams, was entertaining the idea of reading it. then i found 
>out about the new translation, and was wondering whether reading the old 
>one would even be worth it in the end.
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>marcus