BONUS: On Translating Plato, feat. Colin Redemer

Can a translator get back "behind" Plato, figure out his true meaning, and then convey that into English? In his preface to his translation of Plato's Republic, Allan Bloom considers the sacred task lying before the man who studies the greatest books by the greatest minds, Plato's betrayal at the hands of his most arrogant translators, and his own hopes for his translation.

In this New Humanists+ bonus episode, Colin Redemer joins Jonathan and Ryan to read and discuss Allan Bloom's preface to his translation of Plato's Republic.

Plato's Republic (trans. Allan Bloom): https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780465094080

Plato's Republic (trans. H.D.P. Lee): https://amzn.to/4hjXp2o

Plato's Republic (trans. Francis MacDonald Cornford): https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.892/page/n3/mode/2up

Plato's Republic (trans. Desmond Lee): https://amzn.to/4bC4wzn

Plato's Republic (trans. Benjamin Jowett): https://amzn.to/45crUjm

Plato's Republic (trans. C.D.C. Reeve): https://amzn.to/4csemEj

Plato's Republic (trans. Paul Shorey): https://amzn.to/4z1B3Jj

Plato's Republic (trans. A.D. Lindsay): https://amzn.to/4heVcoM

Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9781451683202

Allan Bloom's Shakespeare's Politics: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780226060415

Harold Bloom's Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9781573227513

Harold Bloom's C.S. Lewis: https://amzn.to/45Kr6Cw

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile or On Education (trans. Allan Bloom): https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780465019311

Max Scheler's Ressentiment: https://amzn.to/4pXOZzL

The Odyssey (trans. Emily Wilson): https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780393356250

Tobias Wolff's Bullet in the Brain: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/09/25/bullet-in-the-brain

Music: Subway Cell by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com