Jason, delighted to hear from you and look forward to working with you in February. The issue you raised has posed itself to me already, as three blind people have joined Militant, the group of which I am a member, and we are wrestling with the problem of providing written material to them There is little money around to solve the problem, too, which rules out some solutions. (1) In relation to translations, Paul Ashton is a local expert here in Melbourne, and I think he is the best person to advise on how to approach getting an exlectronic form to convert. I know he has zip-files of the entire text of some of Hegel's works. (2) Nevertheless, my site has a very high percentage of the Shorter Logic, though, from what other people tell me, I have not used the best translation. If you can't find another solution, I think you would be fairly well placed with this version. Please keep me in touch with progress in solving your problem and I would be very interested in assisting you all along the path, though I can't do it myself. Andy ****************************************** >Andy, > >At the outset, I which to express my appreciation for your having made >certain extracts from Hegel's works, together with your own introduction >entitled The Meaning of Hegel's Logic, available via your web site. I have >enrolled for the university's summer course on the subject, which >apparently you will be presenting. Kathryn Clarke provided details of your >web site when I asked whether your introductory text was available in >electronic form. Since I am unable to read print owing to a visual >disability, I rely on texts' being provided in alternative forms, such as >braille, audio tape or character-based computer files. My preferred medium >is braille, especially when reading complex philosophical texts, which are >difficult to comprehend when presented in the audio medium. > >The Royal National Institute for the Blind has produced a braille copy of >Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind, which I haven't read yet, but so far as I >have been able to ascertain, The Science of Logic is unavailable in >braille or in an electronic format (except for the extracts on your web >site). Are you aware of any electronic version of the full text (in >English -- unfortunately I haven't learned German)? I have heard that a >new translation was published several years ago, but there was some >disagreement among the translators. The publisher may have source files, >but obtaining them could be difficult as certain publishers are very >cautious when it comes to providing their texts in an electronic format. >The only other solution would be to scan, edit and format the entire >document, and then use braille software and embossing equipment to >generate a hard copy. Obviously, the first three steps in this process >would be very time consuming, particularly the editing, and I don't know >anyone who has the time or resources to undertake the task. > >Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is obtainable in braille from the RNIB in >England, and I have been studying it as part of the university's >philosophy honours course (concentrating on the transcendental analytic). > >I greatly enjoy reading philosophy and look forward to your course on >Hegel. I will try to read more of your introduction before then, amid >writing essays and trying to finalise my study plans for the year. > >Any advice in relation to how Hegel's text could be made accessible in >braille, would be much appreciated. > >Thank you for your consideration, > >Jason White. > > > >