George Steiner

George (Extraordinary Fellow Steiner, Churchill College Cambridge; and Professor of English and Comparative Literature Extraordinary Fellow Churchill College Cambridge; and Professor of English and Comparative Literature University of Geneva)

`Translation has long needed a champion, and at last in George Steiner it has found a scholar who is a match for the task.' Sunday TimesFirst published in 1975, After Babel constituted the first systematic investigation of the theory and processes of translation since the eighteenth century. In mapping out its own field, it quickly established itself as both controversial and seminal, and gave rise to a considerable, andstill-growing, body of secondary literature. Even today, with its status as a modern classic beyond question, many of the books insights remain provocative and challenging.For the second edition of After Babel, George Steiner entirely revised the text, added new and expanded notes, provided a substantially updated bibliography (including much Russian and Eastern European material), and wrote a new preface setting the book in the present context of hermeneutics,poetics, and translation studies.`Steiner's subject is extravagantly rich and he ponders it on the most generous scale...his language and his ideas display even-handedness, seriousness without heaviness, learning without pedantry, and sober charm.' New Yorker

Aspects of Language and Translation

After Babel

The author presents a penetrating analysis of the collapse of Western culture during the last half of the twentieth century

Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture

In Bluebeard's Castle

The decline of formal religious systems has left a moral and emotional emptiness in Western culture. George Steiner, internationally renowned thinker and scholar, pursues this and examines the alternative "mythologies" of Marxism, Freudian psychology, L vi-Straussian anthropology, and fads of irrationality.

Nostalgia for the Absolute

How do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been made to articulate falsehoods in certain totalitarian regimes or has been charged with vulgarity and imprecision in a mass-consumer democracy? How will language react to the increasingly urgent claims of more exact speech such as mathematics and symbolic notation? These are some of the questions Steiner addresses in this elegantly written book, first published in 1967 to international acclaim.

Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman

Language and Silence

Argues that any understanding of the nature of language is based on the assumption of God's presence, and discusses the influence of this on literary criticism

Real Presences

"We have no more beginnings", George Steiner begins in this radical book. A far-reaching exploration of the idea of creation in Western thought, literature, religion, and history, he reflects on the different ways people have of talking about beginnings, on the "coretiredness" that pervades end-of-the-millennium spirit, and on the changing grammar of discussions about the end of Western art and culture.

Originating in the Gifford Lectures for 1990

Grammars of Creation

from Hellenism to Celan

The poetry of thought

George Steiner's Tolstoy or Dostoevsky has become a classic among scholars of Russian literature. An essay in poetic and philosophic criticism that bears mainly on the Russian masters, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky deals also with larger themes: the epic tradition extending from Homer to Tolstoy; the continuity of a "tragic world view" from Oedipus Rex to King Lear and The Brothers Karamazov; the contrasts between the epic and dramatic modes, between irreconcilably opposed views of God and of history. "A must for the teacher, student, and intellectually serious reader."--Kirkus Reviews "This is a book that provides new and stimulating insight into the literary masterpieces and thought of the great Russian novelists. Moreover, in this work Steiner shows a great depth and breadth of literary knowledge and criticism that is not limited alone to the Russian writers under discussion but to writers of all genres and all literary periods."--Journal of Religion "His is a work of personal criticism, often ingenious, always deeply felt."--The New York Times "Brilliant, provocative, full of insights, this classic study still stands alone and unchallenged in modern criticism as a lucid and erudite study of the contrasting genius of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Steiner's book is a must for the student, scholar, or general reader who wishes to approach the Russian giants in their full literary and philosophical ambience."--Robert L. Jackson

An Essay in the Old Criticism

Tolstoy Or Dostoevsky

On Difficulty, and Other Essays

The Death of Tragedy

An Essay

Idea of Europe

Thirty years after World War II, in the depths of an Amazonian swamp, a crack team of young Israeli Nazi hunters come upon a grizzled and ravaged but alive Adolph Hitler and carry him back to civilization

A Novel

The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H.

Johan Huizinga

Vitor Dias Antunes

Nesta obra, Huizinga organiza e interpreta um dos aspectos fundamentais da cultura humana - o instinto do jogo. Ao ler este livro, damo-nos subitamente conta de como no cerne das diversas actividades humanas - do direito à ciência, do desporto à arte - está um dos fundamentais elementos da cultura humana, o instinto do jogo. Num ensaio filosófico já clássico, que trata de sociedades díspares, tanto geográfica como historicamente, o autor analisa a influência deste instinto na enformação das sociedades humanas, para concluir que a civilização 'não provém do jogo (...) tem origem no jogo e enquanto jogo, nunca deixando de o ser'.

Homo ludens: um estudo sobre o elemento lúdico da cultura

Aproximacion a Un Nuevo Concepto de Cultura

En El Castillo de Barba Azul

zehn (mögliche) Gründe

Warum Denken traurig macht

Vere presenze

ensayos sobre la literatura, el lenguaje y lo inhumano

Lenguaje y silencio

El reconocido fil sofo y ensayista comenta de este libro: "Un libro no escrito es algo m s que un vac o. Acompa a a la obra que uno ha hecho como una sombra ir nica y triste; es una de las vidas que podr amos haber vivido, uno de los viajes que nunca emprendimos. la filosof a ense a que la negaci n puede ser determinante, puede ser algo m s que la eliminaci n de una posibilidad. la privaci n tiene consecuencias que no podemos prever ni calibrar adecuadamente; el libro que nunca hemos escrito es precisamente el que podr a establecer esa diferencia, el que podr a habernos permitido fracasar mejor. O tal vez no".

Los Libros Que Nunca He Escrito

A fascinating insight into a piercingly intelligent mind. Steiner's brilliant and elegant new book draws on episodes from his life to explore the central themes and ideas of his thinking and writing over the course of much of our troubled century. An exploration of the ideas of the life of a major and brilliant thinker, the closest we will get to an autobiography.

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