Intelektuální biografie významného esejisty, kulturního kritika, literárního teoretika, filozofa a spisovatele Georga Steinera. Kniha přináší soubor vytříbených esejů, v nichž autor zkoumá důležité události svého intelektuálního růstu i vášeň pro vysokou kulturu a vzdělanost, již v něm probudil jeho otec, původně vídeňský bankéř. Tyto epizody ovšem slouží především jako příležitosti k úvahám o povaze literatury, vyššího vzdělání, jazyka a hudby. Steiner uvažuje rovněž o původu antisemitismu a o přežití judaismu.
Intelektuální biografie významného esejisty, kulturního kritika, literárního teoretika, filozofa a spisovatele Georga Steinera. Kniha přináš...
This book examines the far-reaching legacy of one of the great myths of classical antiquity. According to Greek legend, Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, secretly buried her brother in defiance of the orders of Creon, king of Thebes. Creon sentenced Antigone to death, but, before the order could be executed, she committed suicide. The theme of the conflict between Antigone and Creon--between the state and the individual, between young and old, between men and women--has captured the Western imagination for more than 2,000 years. Antigone and Creon are as alive in the politics and poetics of...
This book examines the far-reaching legacy of one of the great myths of classical antiquity. According to Greek legend, Antigone, daughter of Oedipus,...
When it first appeared in 1975, After Babel created a sensation, quickly establishing itself as both a controversial and seminal study of literary theory. In the original edition, Steiner provided readers with the first systematic investigation since the eighteenth century of the phenomenology and processes of translation both inside and between languages. Taking issue with the principal emphasis of modern linguistics, he finds the root of the "Babel problem" in our deep instinct for privacy and territory, noting that every people has in its language a unique body of shared secrecy. With this...
When it first appeared in 1975, After Babel created a sensation, quickly establishing itself as both a controversial and seminal study of literary the...
When we talk about education today, 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 what interests George Steiner in this book, a sustained reflection on the infinitely complex and subtle interplay of power, trust, and passions in the most profound sorts of pedagogy. Based on Steiner's Norton Lectures on the art and lore of teaching, Lessons of the Masters evokes a host of exemplary figures, including Socrates and Plato, Jesus and his disciples, Virgil and Dante,...
When we talk about education today, we tend to avoid the rhetoric of "mastery," with its erotic and inegalitarian overtones. But the charged person...
The poetic genius of abstract thought, Steiner believes, is lit, is made audible. Argument, even analytic, has its drumbeat. It is made ode. What voices the closing movements of Hegel s Phenomenology better than Edith Piaf snon de non, a twofold negation which Hegel would have prized? This essay is an attempt to listen more closely. "
The poetic genius of abstract thought, Steiner believes, is lit, is made audible. Argument, even analytic, has its drumbeat. It is made ode. What voic...
