The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780811219457)

With his hallmark forceful discernment, George Steiner offers The Poetry of Thought as his magnum opus: an examination of more than two millennia of Western culture that argues on behalf of 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 philosophy in the West as it entwines with literature, finding that, as Sartre stated, in all philosophy there is "a hidden literary prose." "The poetic genius of abstract thought," Steiner believes, "is lit, is made audible. Argument, even analytic, has its drumbeat. It is made ode. What voices the closing movements of Hegel's Phenomenology better than Edith Piaf's non de non, a twofold negation which Hegel would have prized? This essay is an attempt to listen more closely."

Author: George Steiner
ISBN-10: 0811219453
ISBN-13: 9780811219457
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 01/24/2012
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.60w x 1.00d