The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan
by George Steiner
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"With his hallmark forceful discernment, George Steiner presents in The Poetry of Thought his magnum opus: an examination of more than two millennia of Western culture, staking out his claim for the essential oneness of great thought and great style. Sweeping yet precise, moving from essential detail to bracing illustration, Steiner spans the entire history of Western philosophy as it entwines with literature, finding that, as Sartre stated, in all philosophy there is 'a hidden literary show more prose.'"--Jacket. show lessTags
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George Steiner was born in 1929 in Paris, but also lived in Vienna and New York. Steiner was a critic, novelist, philosopher, translator, and educator. Currently, he is a professor at Cambridge University and the University of Geneva. He has written for the New Yorker for over thirty years and has published the books No Passion Spent, Errata: An show more Examined Life, and Martin Heidegger: With a New Introduction. George Steiner died in Cambridge, England on February 3, 2020, at the age of 90. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- La poesia del pensiero: dall'ellenismo a Paul Celan
- Original title
- The poetry of thought: from hellenism to Celan
- Original publication date
- 2011
- Dedication
- For Durs Grünbein
Poet & Cartesian - First words
- What are the philosophic concepts of the deaf-mute? What are his or her metaphysical imaginings?
- Quotations
- Perhaps, in our brief evolutionary history, we have not yet learned how to think. The tag homo sapiens may, except for a handful, be an unfounded boast.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)A syllable charged with the promise of creation.
- Blurbers
- Alter, Robert; Byatt, A. S.; Tosches, Nick
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