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PREMIUM-Episode 71: Martin Buber’s “I and Thou”

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Koffman's Translations - I and Thou, the Relationship Between Me and the Other

Koffman is known for his translation. And in this chapterh discovering the mind book, where he covers bober and many other figures, he says that he owes his whole theory of translation directly to boober. So you see in smith a very lteralistic style of translation, which i think actually has uses. I vashly kind of walked back from my feeling that coffman's translation was necessarily superior. Both have strength and weaknesses. Although i've got a secondary source that has a lot of comparative quotes between smith and coffman. From what i can see, they don't radically differ. It is really just more a matter of inflection. And style

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