A direct Flemish-to-English retranslation of Tempels is urgently needed
Evidence
For academic purposes it would be necessary to replicate this exercise to determine whether it is especially the French or the English translator who is to be blamed for the distortion. Most urgent, however, would be a re- translation of Tempels’ influential book directly from Dutch (Flemish) into English. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 363
Categorization
Category: Connection Points
- QUESTION: Scholarly gap: no faithful English retranslation of Tempels from the original exists — a concrete project anyone in the field could pursue.
Related
- Tempels wrote Bantu Philosophy specifically for a Western audience using approximate translations. (similarity 0.80)
- Tempels had no university training beyond seminary before writing Bantu Philosophy (similarity 0.80)
- Translation into other languages distorted Bantu philosophical terms. (similarity 0.80)
- Tempels’s thought is best understood through his whole corpus, not just Bantu Philosophy (similarity 0.79)
- Tempels wrote for colonial practitioners, not academic philosophers (similarity 0.79)
- Tempels reserved systematic philosophical articulation for European intellectuals (similarity 0.78)