The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan

by George Steiner

Overview

A profound vision of the inseparability of Western philosophy and its living language

With his hallmark discernment, George Steiner presents in The Poetry of Thought his magnum opus, staking out his claim for the essential oneness of great thought and great style. Steiner spans the entire history of Western philosophy as it entwines with literature, finding that, as Sartre stated, in all philosophy there is "a hidden literary prose."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811221856
Publisher:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date:	02/24/2014
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	865,165
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College at Cambridge University and the author of dozens of books (The Death of Tragedy, After Babel, Martin Heidegger, In Bluebeard’s Castle), George Steiner is one of the world’s foremost intellectuals.

Editorial Reviews

MacLaughlin has hit the nail on the head… Stunning… You may very well read [Hammer Head] in one sitting.”

The New Yorker

Beautiful and wise. . . . Like if Annie Dillard had her own show on HGTV.

Robvert Alter - The Washington Post

No one now writing on literature can match Steiner as polymath and polyglot, and few can equal the verve and eloquence of his writing.

The Washington Post - Robvert Alter

The Poetry of Thoughtis denser in its language, more disquieting in its arguments, more in line with Steiner’s stronger works, such asHeidegger(1978) and many of the essays collected inNo Passion Spent (1996). Steiner’s overall subject here is the interlocked nature of poetic language and philosophical thought, and how the intellect manifests itself through this connection.”

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