George Steiner

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...

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...

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...

¿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...

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...

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...

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'...

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...