Este diálogo entre Cécile Ladjali, una joven profesora agregada de literatura del liceo de un suburbio parisino, y George Steiner, erudito y profesor de renombre internacional, da pie a un intercambio de puntos de vista acerca del recurso...
A partir de unas palabras en las que Schelling insinúa, a la manera de los gnósticos, que la tristeza es el telón de fondo de la naturaleza en general y de la condición humana en particular, George Steiner desarrolla diez tesis...
En Los logócratas diversos textos inéditos ensayos, entrevistas, el relato «A las cinco de la tarde» que jalonan la trayectoria de George Steiner nos desvelan las bases teóricas y metafísicas sobre las...
Un ensayista profundo y brillante, con libros que han tenido un notable impacto internacional.. Un maestro del pensamiento contemporáneo, de talante y acento muy personal."
Natalia Ginzburg hace un inventario íntimo de la vida en pareja. Eduardo Milán traza los paralelismos entre la poesía y el impulso amoroso. Nélida Piñon escribe una carta que no sabe si enviará. Mark Vernon descub...
»Diese überarbeitete Fassung von Nach Babel will Sprachphilosophen, Ideengeschichtler, Gelehrte auf dem Gebiet der Poetik, der Künste und der Musik, Linguisten und natürlich Übersetzer ansprechen. Aber sie bemüht sich auch...
According to Greek legend, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, secretly buried her brother in defiance of the order of Creon, king of Thebes. Sentenced to death by Creon, she forestalled him by committing suicide. The theme of the conflict between Antigone...
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.
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 seized the attention of the worldâs press and media...
"This book is important--and portentous--for if it is true that tragedy is dead, we face a vital cultural loss. . The book is bound to start controversy. . The very passion and insight with which he writes about the tragedies that have moved him...
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,...
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...
With characteristic lucidity and style, Steiner makes Heidegger's immensely difficult body of work accessible to the general reader. In a new introduction, Steiner addresses language and philosophy and the rise of Nazism.