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At the end of a century whose catastrophic violence has irreparably damaged the human capacity for hope, our knowledge of the origins of life has so deepened that we can create life artificially. In this book the author seeks to articulate our experience of the present condition. He asks: What is it that sustains our modern confidence in being alive? Subjects discussed range from modern cosmology to Philip Larkin. He concludes by asking: "Can there, will there be major philosophy. literature, music and art of an atheist provenance?"
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Grammars of Creation by George Steiner brings the unparalleled acumen and erudition of the eminent critic to bear on many neglected questions - are great works of art, literature and music 'creations' or 'inventions'? Does the mathematician 'invent' or 'discover? - with a prose which is 'unfailingly apt, luminous and evocative.' (Guardian)
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Born in Paris in 1929, George Steiner was educated in France, the USA and Britain. After a Rhodes Scholarship to Balliol, he joined the editorial staff of The Economist in 1952. In 1956 he was elected a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. There he wrote Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky (1960) and began The Death of Tragedy (1961). In 1964 he published Anno Domini, a book of three novellas dealing with the aftermath of the Second World War. Language and Silence was published in 1967. His other work includes Proofs and Three Parables, which Faber published in 1992.George Steiner lives in Cambridge, where he has been Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College since 1969. He has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur. He has been awarded the Commandeur dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 1994 he became the first Lord Weidenfeld Professor of Comparative Literature at Oxford.
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- EditoreFaber & Faber
- Data di pubblicazione2001
- ISBN 10 0571206816
- ISBN 13 9780571206810
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- LinguaInglese
- Numero di pagine304
- Contatto del produttorenon disponibile
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