Thomas Common

Thomas Common

Thomas Common (1850-1919) [David S. Thatcher, "Nietzsche in England, 1890-1914", University of Toronto Press, 1970. ISBN 0-8020-5234-7] was a translator and critic, who translated several books by Nietzsche into English. There is little information about him biographically, though indications are that he was a very well-educated and literate scholar, who lived in the area of Corstorphine, Scotland.

In the mid-1890s, he joined a project led by Alexander Tille to produce a complete English edition of Nietzsche's work. Common translated several of them, including a version of Thus Spake Zarathustra published in 1909. Despite his translation in the 50's receiving vitriolic criticism from Nietzsche translator Walter Kaufmann (who, it should be noted, also lambasted Nietzsche himself with vitriolic criticism, claiming that Nietzsche was a poor philosopher guilty of "adolescent" thoughts), the Thomas Common translation is today well-regarded by many and is the most highly distributed and read English translation of Zarathustra. The Kaufmann translation, however, was superseded by newer translations by R.J. Hollingdale and Graham Parkes.

In 1901 he published a book called "Nietzsche as Critic, Philosopher, Poet and Prophet", which was extremely enthusiastic about its subject, and was recommended to the publisher by George Bernard Shaw. The book did not circulate widely as the publisher went bankrupt very soon after publication, but it was read by W. B. Yeats, who was strongly influenced by Nietzschean ideas, as can be seen in his poetry. From 1903 to 1916 Common produced a quarterly journal called "Notes for Good Europeans" (later titled "The Good European Point of View"), with the purpose of increasing public interest in Nietzsche.

References

External links

*worldcat id|lccn-n93-77158


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужно решить контрольную?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Common Sayings Source — The Common Sayings Source is one of many theories that attempts to provide insight into the Synoptic Problem. The theory posits that the Gospel of Thomas, a sayings gospel, and the Q source, a hypothetical sayings gospel, have a common source.… …   Wikipedia

  • Thomas Paine — Thomas Paine, geboren als Thomas Pain,[1] (* 29. Januar 1736jul./ 9. Februar 1737greg.[2] in Thetford …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Thomas Payne — Thomas Paine Pour les articles homonymes, voir Paine. Thomas Paine N …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Thomas Wight — (? ca.1608 [ A Quantitative Analysis of the London Book Trade 1614 1618 , David L. Gants, Studies in Bibliography Volume 55, 2002, pp. 185 213 gives a date of 1605 for Wight s death.] ) was a bookseller, publisher and draper in London. Wight… …   Wikipedia

  • Thomas à Kempis — • Author of the Imitation of Christ , born at Kempen in the Diocese of Cologne, in 1379 or 1380; died 25 July, 1471 Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Thomas a Kempis     Thomas à Kempis …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Common Sense Realism — or Scottish Common Sense Realism is a school of philosophy that originated in the ideas of Scottish philosophers Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson and Dugald Stewart during the 18th century Scottish Enlightenment. Contents 1 Teachings 2 Influence 2.1 …   Wikipedia

  • Common Blackbird — An adult male, nominate race, in England Conservation status …   Wikipedia

  • Common Treeshrew — Conservation status Least Concern ( …   Wikipedia

  • Thomas Reid — Thomas Reid, Portrait von Sir Henry Raeburn (1796) Thomas Reid (* 26. April 1710 in Strachan, Kincardineshire, Schottland; † 7. Oktober 1796 in Glasgow, Schottland) war ein schottischer Philosoph und Zeitgenosse David Humes. Er …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Thomas Paine — Nombre completo Thomas Paine Nacimiento 29 de enero de 1737 Thetford …   Wikipedia Español

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”