Grammars of Creation - Hardcover

Steiner, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300088639 ISBN 13: 9780300088632

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Roaming across topics as diverse as the Hebrew Bible, the history of science and mathematics, the ontology of Heidegger, and the poetry of Paul Celan, Steiner examines how the twentieth century has placed in doubt the rationale and credibility of a future tense - the existence of hope. Acknowledging that technology and science may have replaced art and literature as the driving forces in our culture, Steiner warns that this has not happened without a significant loss. The forces of technology and science alone fail to illuminate inevitable human questions regarding value, faith, and meaning. And yet it is difficult to believe that the story out of Genesis has ended, Steiner observes, and he concludes this volume of reflections with an evocation of the endlessness of beginnings.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"A fresh, revelatory, golden eagle's eye-view of western literature." -Ruth Padel, Financial Times

"One reads Steiner . . . for the many sharp insights and speculations that fill all of his books. There is no shortage of them . . . in Grammars of Creation." -Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle

"The range of [Steiner's] learning and his passionate engagement with values and ideas have made him one of the more dynamic and compelling voices in contemporary criticism. . . . Steiner ranges over an impressively wide array of even more impressively lofty subjects and reference points." -Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times

About the Author:

George Steiner is Fellow of Churchill College at Cambridge.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0300088639
• ISBN 13: 9780300088632
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352