Notes on the Translation
Corrections to my translation of Hegel’s Science of Logic (Cambridge University Press, 2010). No translation is ever perfect: there could always be a better one. Perfection, however, is not the same as correctness, and errors also have a way of creeping in. The notes below are the running record of those I know about. Because they turn on exact page references and, in places, on mathematical notation, each note is given here as the original PDF rather than reset as web text.
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1. Corrections Regarding the Recent Translation of Hegel’s ‘Greater Logic’
The first list of errors, two of them serious: at p. 386, ‘pure reflection’ should read ‘pure negativity’; at p. 723, a subordinate clause is attached to the wrong line.
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2. A Second Note Regarding the Recent Translation of Hegel’s ‘Greater Logic’
Two typographical errors in Remark 1 on the calculus (pp. 235 and 241) that entered Hegel’s own text in the 1832 edition and have been reproduced without comment in every subsequent edition and English translation since.
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3. One More Note on the Translation of Hegel’s Science of Logic
An error at p. 705 in Hegel’s illustration from Gauss, with the history of the 1923 Lasson emendation that stood behind it — followed by four further corrections, marked here as not appearing in the printed note.