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Walter Benjamin
Benjamin’s most sustained and original work, and one of the main sources of literary modernism
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George Steiner is a central figure on the contemporary intellectual scene. In this book, a group of eminent American and European critics offer an assessment of Steiner’s work.
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George Steiner (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Geneva and Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge)
This volume offers a rich sampling of George Steiner’s writing, including essays from his seminal books After Babel, The Death of Tragedy, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky, Language and Science, and Antigones…
George Steiner (Churchill College, Camridge)
An education in a portmanteau: George Steiner at The New Yorker collects his best work from his more than 150 pieces for the magazine.
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Franz Kafka
The story of the indictment, trial and reckoning of Joseph K.
Bringing together writers, translators, poets, and leading scholars of cultural theory, literary theory, comparative literature, philosophy, history, political science, music studies, and education, The Wounds of Possibility aims to offer…
Theres Kuratli
Steiners Werke, Steiners Denken und Steiners Philosophieren kreisen um Gravitationszentren, deren Epiphanomene als ‘Prasenz’ oder auch ‘Transzendenz’ bezeichnet werden koennen und die eine besondere Artikulation der Horizontalitat und Vertikalitat mit…
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Georg Steiner
Als ein Beispiel der christlichen Dichtung in der altenglischen Literatur hat sich Georg Steiner das Gedicht Daniel vorgenommen. Steiner zeigt die Abweichungen zu einer reinen Bibelubertragung auf und erlautert die…
George Steiner
Thirty years after World War II, Israeli Nazi-hunters, some of whom lost relatives in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany, find a silent old man in the Amazon jungle. He…
The Antigone myth in Western literature, art and thought.
George Steiner–one of the preeminent essayists and literary thinkers of our era–addresses issues of language and the relation of language to literature and to religion. He covers a wide range…
Can there be major dimensions of a poem, a painting, a musical compostion created in the absence of God? Or, is God always a real presence in the arts? Any…
""?????ber die Interpolation im angels?????chsischen Gedicht Daniel (1889)"" ist ein Buch des ??????sterreichischen Philosophen und Anthroposophen Georg Steiner. Das Buch besch?????ftigt sich mit dem altenglischen Gedicht ""Daniel"", das Teil des…
At the end of a century whose catastrophic violence has irreparably damaged the human capacity for hope, our knowledge of the origins of life has so deepened that we can…
From the distinguished polymath George Steiner comes a profound and illuminating vision of the inseparability of Western philosophy and its living language.
Acquaintance with the work of Martin Heidegger is indispensable to an understanding of contemporary thought and culture. His work has had a profound influence on a number of disciplines, including…
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When we talk about education, we tend to avoid the rhetoric of mastery, with its erotic and inegalitarian overtones. But the charged personal encounter between master and disciple is precisely…
George Steiner, the eminent professor of English at Cambridge and Geneva universities, has outlined seven books he has never written, but has always wanted to write, in seven sections.
Soren Kierkegaard
Written from the perspective of an unbeliever, Fear and Trembling explores the paradox of faith, the nature of Christianity and the complexity of human emotion.
Georges Steiner
Dans ce livre, que George Steiner, a voulu intituler Le Sens du sens, on trouvera le texte d'une conference fondamentale, donnee dans les trois langues qui determinent sa vie et…
Looks at the Antigone myth in Western literature, art and thought.
John Steiner,George Steiner
Tells the story of how forces in business, government, and society shape our world. This title features an emphasis on management issues and processes that allows students to apply the…
Catherine Chatterley
Focuses on George Steiner’s neglected writings on the Holocaust and antisemitism and places this work at the centre of an analysis of his criticism. It clearly demonstrates how Steiner’s family…
George A. Steiner
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One of the worlds foremost literary critics meditates upon seven books he long had in mind to write but never did. Massively erudite, the essays are also brave, unflinching, and…
In this fiercely original and audacious work, George Steiner tells of seven books that he did not write
A profound vision of the inseparability of Western philosophy and its living language
Mr George Steiner
George Steiner, one of the great literary minds of our century, here relates the story of his own life and the ways that people, places, and events have colored the…
Mr George Steiner,MR George Steiner (University of Geneva)
George Steiner’s Tolstoy or Dostoevsky has become a classic among scholars of Russian literature. An essay in poetic and philosophic criticism that bears mainly on the Russian masters, Tolstoy or…
D. Jasper,George Steiner
This collection of essays is concerned with the translation and interpretation of religious texts. Four of the essays deal directly with biblical literature, and two explore translation in terms of…
Alan Macfarlane
Creative Lives and Works is a collection of interviews conducted by one of England’s leading social anthropologists and historians, Alan Macfarlane. The current volume is on four of England’s foremost…
Christopher J. Knight
Original and deliberative, Uncommon Readers presents a renewed defense of the tradition of the common reader.
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George F. Steiner
Dual inheritance theory (DIT) recognises the fact that for the last 50 millennia cultural evolution has had a marked impact on our anatomy, behaviour and cognition. Unfortunately, by considering cumulative…
Dual inheritance theory (DIT) recognizes the fact that for the last 50 millennia cultural evolution has had a marked impact on our anatomy, behavior and cognition. Unfortunately, by considering cumulative…
In this final volume, Peggy and George eagerly anticipate the war's end and their reunion. With each Allied victory the couple dares to hope their separation may only last a…
Johann Wilhelm Georg Steiner
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
George Steiner,Yale University Press,George Steiner
One of a series of titles first published by Faber between 1930 and 1990, and in a style and format planned with a view to the appearance of the volumes…
Offers a source of literary modernism in the twentieth century.
Harry Golombek,George Steiner
The world chess championship between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer at Reykjavik in 1972 was the most widely publicised and eagerly analysed beforehand of any chess match to date. It…
Friedrich Ohly
Friedrich Ohly’s classic study offers a comparative cultural history of figures such as Oedipus, Judas and Faust, from antiquity, through the Middle Ages, into modern times. Ohly’s wide-ranging arguments weave…
Robert Boyers
This is a memoiristic book and a dual portrait, built around intense friendships with two leading public intellectuals who achieved celebrity status-Susan Sontag on a global scale, George Steiner principally…
George Kaufmann
Sketches From The Life-Work Of Rudolf Steiner is a book written by George Kaufmann that provides an insight into the life and work of Rudolf Steiner. Steiner was a philosopher…
THIS 36 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Fruits of Anthroposophy, by George Kaufmann. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766133257.
An introduction to the work of Dr. Rudolf Steiner with illustrations of the Goetheanum (School of Spiritual Science at Dornach in Switzerland) and an extensive bibliography of Dr. Rudolf Steiner’s…
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.
George Steiner (Extraordinary Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge; and Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Geneva)
This is the third edition of After Babel , a controversial work in translation studies first published in 1975. The new edition is entirely revised and corrected and contains information…
