A Powerless Impossibility (A review of A.V. Markov’s translation of Aristotle’s Metaphysics)

Abstract

In present paper I review the first in more than 100 years completely new translation of Aristotle’s Metaphysics in Russian. Having examined the principles of this new edition (in pt. 1) and its probable goals (in pt. 3) as well as having thoroughly commented the text of Metaphysics A.1 as it is presented in the translation (in pt. 2), I conclude that the text, that this edition offers, not only cannot be regarded as a translation of Aristotle in any remotely acceptable sense, but barely constitutes a coherent text at all.