George Steiner, Author University of Chicago Press $17 (246p) ISBN 978-0-226-77234-9
Steiner asserts moral and metaphysical issues are the basis of all art and that our experience of meaning in music, painting and literature presupposes the existence of God as a ``necessary possibility.'' ``Dense, difficult, rewarding, this...
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George Steiner, Author Yale University Press $45 (206p) ISBN 978-0-300-07503-8
""It happens to be blindingly obvious to me that study, theological-philosophic argument, classical music, poetry, art, all that is `difficult because it is excellent'... are the excuse for life."" It is this postulate that reigns supreme throughout
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George Steiner, Author Yale University Press $39 (352p) ISBN 978-0-300-08863-2
Steiner begins with the ominous phrase, ""We have no more beginnings."" In the past, danger came from without, but in the 20th century, Nazism, fascism and Stalinism sprang from within, born from the very cultures they corrupted. The trend continues
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George Steiner, Author University of Chicago Press $29 (246p) ISBN 978-0-226-77233-2
Going against the grain of much current thought, Steiner ( After Babel ) argues here that our experience of meaning in music, painting and literature presupposes the existence of God as a ``necessary possibility.'' To this eminent critic, art makes...
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George Steiner, Author Yale University Press $20 (448p) ISBN 978-0-300-06630-2
Sometimes puzzling, sometimes irritating, but always fascinating, Steiner is at his best when exploring the politics, philosophy and practice of semantics. Several excellent essays, most of which have appeared previously in the New Yorker and...
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George Steiner. Overlook/Duckworth, $20 (80p) ISBN 978-1-4683-1024-5
What lies ahead for Europe after Christianity's loss of cultural dominance is one of the great cultural questions of the century. The celebrated literary critic Steiner addressed this mystery in a widely admired 2003 lecture, now reissued with a...
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