Nope, I didn't see it - will do so now - Edit 1
Before modification by RugbyPlayingAshaman at 04/03/2010 04:06:28 PM
It's a great translation, with clear dialogue and it gets the idea across really well. It is so good, actually, that I never bothered to research alternate translations!
The problem is that it does not get the finer points across well, if at all; and indeed it turns some of the central points topsy-turvy by presenting de Beauvoir as an essentialist. So while it may be fun to read, it really does not work as a translation of a work of philosophy.
After reading this translation, I did not have an image of her as an essentialist at all. I thought most of the finer points were well communicated, but I am not a philosopher, and have studied aspects of evolutionary theory moreso than rhetorical discussions so to me, it made perfect sense and didn't confuse me at all.
Do you have an example of how this book fails to get a finer point across?
Did you read what I linked? Much of what Moi writes refers to the problems of the Parshley edition.