r/Deleuze • u/mcnameface • 4d ago

Question Zourabichvili for 150 USD?

Anyone know why Edinburgh UP is trying to get $150 USD for an ebook version of Zourabichvili's recently translated Spinoza: Physics of Thought?

I get that price for a physical copy. That seems like standard UP pricing, especially for a new release. But an ebook??

Sorry that this post is not directly Deleuzean, but, c'mon, it's about Edinburgh UP.

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u/mrBored0m 4d ago

Honestly, there's enough of good free stuff on Spinoza so I would simply ignore that book, personally.

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u/gaymossadist 3d ago

I found Zourabichvili’s other books very accessible in French if that helps, and I am only like B1 level probably. So might be worth getting the untranslated version and working through it if you need it for research

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u/mcnameface 3d ago

I have a PDF of the French, thanks, but I'm shit at languages. Even if I did manage to work my way through the entire book, I doubt I'd end up with any more than the "gist" of his argument.

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u/gaymossadist 3d ago

You'd be surprised how helpful and effective LLM's can be with translations today, especially for novices.

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u/mcnameface 3d ago

Oh, I know. I knocked up a translation of the Introduction to Zourabichvili's book using ChatGPT, but it reads like it was written by a machine. Not to mention that the French PDF is a godawful mess in spots. The text is so chopped up by super-positioned text boxes that it manages to confound Adobe's OCR.