NON-LITERARY TRANSLATIONS

Below are links to the translations of non-literary texts that I have completed either by myself

or with a co-translator.

CARL WILHELM FRÖLICH’S "ON MAN AND HIS CIRCUMSTANCES": A TRANSLATION OF "ÜBER DEN MENSCHEN UND SEINE VERHÄLTNISSE"

Peter Lang, 2017

Published anonymously, Frölich’s treatise consists of ten Platonic-like dialogues between Erast and Philemon, the central interlocutor, and four interspersed reflections. Frölich addresses the major concerns of the late eighteenth century from the vantage point of materialist ethics: the path toward happiness, natural and conventional feelings, human freedom, active and passive education, nature and morality, virtue and justice, reason and religion, and the requirements of a good teacher. Underlying all of these concerns is Frölich’s belief that social circumstances significantly determine individual happiness. If humanity is to become happier, these circumstances must be changed via pupil-oriented education and opposition to private property with its dehumanizing profit system. Frölich represents a unique voice in the conversation on human perfectibility in eighteenth-century German intellectual history.

PETRA SCHÖNEMANN-BEHRENS,
ALFRED HERMANN FRIED
PEACE ACTIVIST AND NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATE

WITH THOMAS AHRENS

Brill, 2021

Providing an informative review of the life and times of Alfred H. Fried (1864-1921), a significant if underappreciated German pacifist of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, the author explores how Fried, in response to the militarism and international anarchy of the European states, developed his unique notion of “revolutionary” or “scientific” pacifism, differentiating it from reform pacifism, in order to address the material causes of war. As theorist, practitioner, and journalist, Fried advanced radical ideas at the time: the formation of a pan-European union, the establishment of an effective international court of arbitration, the elimination of a secretive diplomatic class, and the expansion of international economic and cultural cooperation.

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CL. MÜNSTER, “THE DISCOVERY OF THE VENETIAN BLIND EFFECT: A TRANSLATION OF MUNSTER (1941)"

WITH W. W. STINE

I-Perception (8(4):1-21

18 July 2017

A translation of “Über den Einfluß von Helligkeitsunterschieden” by Cl.Münster (1941)

WILHELM WUNDT, “INTROSPECTION AND INNER PERCEPTION”

June 2023

A translation of Wilhelm Wundt’s essay “Selbstbeobachtung und Innere Wahrnehmung” (1888)

(unpublished)

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