No Passion Spent: Essays 1978-1995 - Brossura

Steiner, George

 
9780300074406: No Passion Spent: Essays 1978-1995
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ISBN 10: 0300074409 ISBN 13: 9780300074406
Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 1998

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George Steiner is one of the preeminent essayists and literary thinkers of our era. In this remarkable book he concerns himself with language and the relation of language to literature and to religion. Written during a period when the art of reading and the status of a text have been threatened by literary movements that question their validity and by computer technology, Steiner's essays affirm the primacy of reading in the classical sense.
Steiner covers a wide range of subjects, from the Hebrew Bible, Homer, and Shakespeare to Kafka, Kierkegaard, Simone Weil, Husserl, and Freud. The theme of Judaism's tragic destiny winds through his thinking, in particular as he muses about whether Jewish scripture and the Talmud are the Jew's true homeland, about the parallels between the "last supper" of Socrates and the Last Supper of Jesus, and about the necessity for Christians to hold themselves accountable for their invective and impotence during the Holocaust.

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Editore
Yale Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
1998
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0300074409
ISBN 13 
9780300074406
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
448
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9780300066302: No Passion Spent: Essays 1978-1995

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ISBN 10:  0300066309 ISBN 13:  9780300066302
Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 1996
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