Looks like there is a typo, just not the one you thought:
French: la nature n'est que la représentation des êtres
ends up as
English: nature is simply the representation of words
Being should not have been translated as words here.
Best,
Anthony
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:47 AM, alasdair mcmillan <amcmill@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Alastair,
> the quotation you provide seems to be correct. the same sentence in the
> 1966
> Gallimard edition reads:
> "Le langage n'est que la répresentation des mots; la nature n'est que la
> représentation des êtres; le besoin n'est que la représentation du besoin."
> The point being, as I understand it, that felt 'need' - qua object of
> political economy or the 'science des richesses' - coincides with/is
> nothing
> other than its own representation, rather than being a 'representation of'
> something else.
> hope this sheds a bit of light on the matter.
> cheers,
> Ali
>
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>
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Alastair Kemp <alastair.kemp@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm reading The Routledge Classics 2002 first published, 2nd reprint for
> > 2006 copy of Order of Things.
> >
> > On page 227, Chapter 6: Exchanging, Section VIII Desire and Reproduction,
> > lines 14-16 it states
> >
> > "Language is simply the representation of words; nature is simply the
> > representation of words; need is simply the representation of need."
> >
> > Surely the 'need' in bold is a proof typo? Shouldn't it be 'wealth'?
> >
> > Anyone enlighten me?
> >
> > all the best
> >
> > Alastair Kemp
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> >
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French: la nature n'est que la représentation des êtres
ends up as
English: nature is simply the representation of words
Being should not have been translated as words here.
Best,
Anthony
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:47 AM, alasdair mcmillan <amcmill@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Alastair,
> the quotation you provide seems to be correct. the same sentence in the
> 1966
> Gallimard edition reads:
> "Le langage n'est que la répresentation des mots; la nature n'est que la
> représentation des êtres; le besoin n'est que la représentation du besoin."
> The point being, as I understand it, that felt 'need' - qua object of
> political economy or the 'science des richesses' - coincides with/is
> nothing
> other than its own representation, rather than being a 'representation of'
> something else.
> hope this sheds a bit of light on the matter.
> cheers,
> Ali
>
> --
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Alasdair McMillan
> Ph.D II / Graduate Assistant
> Graduate Program in Science and Technology Studies<
> http://www.yorku.ca/sts/>
> Institute for Science and Technology Studies <http://ists.news.yorku.ca/>
> Bethune College, York University
> 4700 Keele St.
> Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
> Canada
>
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Alastair Kemp <alastair.kemp@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm reading The Routledge Classics 2002 first published, 2nd reprint for
> > 2006 copy of Order of Things.
> >
> > On page 227, Chapter 6: Exchanging, Section VIII Desire and Reproduction,
> > lines 14-16 it states
> >
> > "Language is simply the representation of words; nature is simply the
> > representation of words; need is simply the representation of need."
> >
> > Surely the 'need' in bold is a proof typo? Shouldn't it be 'wealth'?
> >
> > Anyone enlighten me?
> >
> > all the best
> >
> > Alastair Kemp
> > _______________________________________________
> > Foucault-L mailing list
> >
> _______________________________________________
> Foucault-L mailing list
>
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