George Steiner
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Acclaimed literary critic George Steiner on two of the literary canon's greatest and most influential writers "Literary criticism," writes Steiner, "should arise out of a debt of love." Abiding by his own rule, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky is an impassioned work, inspired by Steiner's conviction that the legacies of these two Russian masters loom over Western literature. By explaining how Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky differ from each other, Steiner...
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A distinguished collection of essays on language, literature, and philosophy from acclaimed scholar and critic George Steiner On Difficulty is as provocative and relevant today as when its essays were first published. Ranging from critical topics such as the understanding of language to the meaning of meaning, inward speech to the relationship between erotic sensibility and linguistic convention, these eight essays posit myriad topics for exploration...
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An engrossing and provocative look at the decline of tragedy in modern art "All men are aware of tragedy in life. But tragedy as a form of drama is not universal." So begins George Steiner's adept analysis of the demise of classic tragedy as a dramatic depiction of heroism and suffering. In The Death of Tragedy, Steiner examines the uniqueness and importance of the Greek classical tragedy-from antiquity to the age of Jean Racine and William Shakespeare-as...
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Melómano tanto o más que hombre de letras, George Steiner ha escrito a lo largo de medio siglo una gran variedad de textos sobre compositores, géneros musicales y algunas piezas en particular, siempre con una sensibilidad que le permite ir más allá del fenómeno sonoro. Nunca antes reunidos en un volumen, estos artículos, reseñas, notas de programa y conferencias-e incluso un original ensayo a tres voces que puede escenificarse ante un público-son...
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A collection of essays and articles about the life of language, and its role in a world where words are used to manipulate as often as they are used to convey meaning Language and Silence is a book about language-and politics, meaning, silence, and the future of literature. Originally published between 1958 and 1966, the essays that make up this collection ponder whether we have passed out of an era of verbal primacy and into one of post-linguistic...
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George Steiner's essential tome on linguistics, hailed by the New York Times as a "dazzling inquiry into the possibility of translation" In his classic work, literary critic and scholar George Steiner tackles what he considers the Babel "problem": Why, over the course of history, have humans developed thousands of different languages when the social, material, and economic advantages of a single tongue are obvious? Steiner argues that different cultures'...
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Early in Grammars of Creation, George Steiner references Plato's maxim that in "all things natural and human, the origin is the most excellent." Creation, he argues, is linguistically fundamental in theology, philosophy, art, music, literature-central, in fact, to our very humanity. Since the Holocaust, however, art has shown a tendency to linger on endings-on sundown instead of sunrise. Asserting that every use of the future tense of the verb "to...
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Distinguished essayist and literary critic George Steiner explores the power and presence of the unseen in art There is a philosophical school of thought that believes the presence of God in art, literature, and music-in creativity in general-is a vacant metaphor, an eroded figure of speech, a ghost in humanity's common parlance. George Steiner posits the opposite-that any coherent understanding of language and art, any capacity to communicate meaning...
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A thought-provoking examination of the complex teacher-student relationship, from one of the great minds of the modern literary world Based on George Steiner's extensive experience as a teacher, Lessons of the Masters is a passionate examination of the "profession of the professor." He writes about what empowers one person to teach another, and explores the complexities and nuances of this bond. From the charismatic master to the loving disciple,...
11) Anno Domini
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The three stories bundled in this book are tales about war and love, about memories keeping their cancerous hold.
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Writer and scholar George Steiner's Massey Lectures are just as cogent today as when he delivered them in 1974 -- perhaps even more so. He argues that Western culture's moral and emotional emptiness stems from the decay of formal religion. He examines the alternate mythologies (Marxism, etc.) and fads of irrationality (astrology, the occult). Steiner argues that this decay and the failure of the mythologies have created a nostalgia for the absolute...
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Brillante conversador, además de erudito, George Steiner (en contraposición dialéctica con su interlocutor, Antoine Spire) se abre a un relato
vivo, apasionado, que nos lleva al límite de la paradoja y la provocación. Desde aspectos de su propia biografía a los asuntos más espinosos abordados en la obra de este gigante de la cultura europea, sus pensamientos tocan la música, la filosofía, la poesía y la literatura, el lugar que corresponde...
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The Idea of Europe finds George Steiner reckoning with Europe from a number of different angles. "Europe,†? he writes, "is the place where Goethe's garden almost borders on Buchenwald, where the house of Corneille abuts on the market-place in which Joan of Arc was hideously done to death.†? It is, in other words, a continent rich with contradiction, whose many tensions-cultural, social, political, economic, and religious-have for centuries conspired...
15) Martin Heidegger
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A rich and evocative study of one of modern history's most compelling and controversial philosophers by a literary and critical grand master In Martin Heidegger, George Steiner delves into the life and work of the prolific German philosopher. His deft analysis lays bare the intricacies of Heidegger's work and his influence on modern society, offering a clear and accessible analysis of the philosopher's more difficult ideas, from the human condition...
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¿Qué le pasa a una sociedad cuando relega el estudio del mundo clásico? ¿Cuáles son las consecuencias para la convivencia democrática de arrinconar las humanidades y entronizar como únicos paradigmas válidos la ciencia y la tecnología? ¿Qué le sucede a una civilización que extravía, en el vértigo del presente, su alma? Tres grandes humanistas, el filólogo George Steiner, el poeta Adam Zagajewski y la helenista Jacqueline de Romilly...