【英语】 Strauss on Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra 初版

条目内容介绍：
书名：Strauss on Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra （The Leo Strauss Transcript Series）
作者：Leo Strauss，(Edited and with an Introduction by) Richard L. Velkley
出版社：The University of Chicago Press （2017）
语言：English
ISBN-13：978-0-226-48663-5 (cloth)
ISBN-13：978-0-226-48677-2 (e-book)
DOI：10.7208/chicago/9780226486772.001.0001

Scattered excerpts from THE PORTABLE NIETZSCHE by Friedrich Nietzsche, edited by
Walter Kaufmann, translated by Walter Kaufmann, translation copyright 1954, © 1968, renewed
© 1982 by Penguin Random House LLC, used by permission of Viking Books, an imprint of
Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

Book Description：

The course was taught in a seminar form. Strauss began class with general

remarks; a student then read aloud portions of the text, followed by

Strauss’s comments and responses to student questions and comments.

The text assigned for this course was Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke

Zarathustra, in The Portable Nietzsche, edited and translated by Walter

Kaufmann (Viking Penguin, 1954). When the text was read aloud in class,

this transcript records the words as they appear in The Portable Nietzsche.

Original spelling has been retained. Citations are included for all

passages.

There are no surviving audiotapes of this course. This transcript is

based upon the original transcript, made by persons unknown to us. The

quality of the audiotapes was in some cases unreliable. Session 5 was too

inaudible for them to transcribe; what appears here as session 5 is a transcript

of notes taken by Werner Dannhauser. Sessions 11 and 14 break off

with the transcriber’s observation that the remainder is inaudible. Sessions

13 and 14 are particularly challenging. The transcriber would in some

cases note in parentheses that an airplane flew over or that a student’s

question or the reader of the text was inaudible. In other cases, he or she

would leave a blank space in the transcript. The transcriber also inserted

ellipses, which may or may not have meant that the tape was inaudible.

We have dealt with these difficulties in the following way. Ellipses

original to the transcript have been retained and are distinguished by a

bold typeface. Blank spaces and other indications that the audio was inaudible

are rendered by us with ellipses in normal typeface. In some cases,

the editor has supplied what he thought was the missing word or phrase.

These insertions are in brackets. In cases where the reader was inaudible,

the editor has inserted the text.

Minor changes to the transcript are not noted. For example, we have

corrected inaccurate noun- verb agreement, rectified peculiar word order,

and inserted prepositions or connecting words in the interest of readability.

Sentence fragments that might not be appropriate in academic prose

have been kept; some long and rambling sentences have been divided;

some repeated clauses or words have been deleted. A clause that breaks

the syntax or train of thought may have been moved elsewhere in the

sentence or paragraph. In rare cases sentences within a paragraph may

have been reordered.

Administrative details regarding paper or seminar topics or meeting

rooms or times have been deleted without being noted, but reading assignments

have been retained. Endnotes have been provided to identify

persons, texts, and events to which Strauss refers.

A version of the transcript showing all deletions and insertions will

become available on the Leo Strauss Center website two years after print

publication of this transcript and can be made available upon request

meanwhile for the same price as the printed version. The original transcript

may be consulted in the Strauss archive in Special Collections at

the University of Chicago Library.

This transcript was edited by Richard Velkley, with assistance from

Alex Priou and Gayle McKeen.

About the Author：
Richard Velkley is Celia Scott Weatherhead Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. （https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/departments/philosophy/people/richard-velkley）