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An invitation to self-examination from George Steiner

Quote10 March 20158 March 2015 llwilmothLeave a comment

George Steiner on anti-Semitism as an expression of anti-theism I have throughout my work, and most explicitly in In Bluebeard’s Castle (1971), argued that it is not the accusation of deicide, of the alleged complicity of the Jews in the killing of Jesus of Nazareth, which underlies and sustains Western anti-Semitism. No doubt, Jew-hatred is […]

George Steiner on hermeneutics and classics

Quote25 January 20154 November 2018 llwilmothLeave a comment

George Steiner on … 1. Hermeneutics A master-reader (or viewer or listener) equipped, in the case of literature, with linguist-historical knowledge, ideally sensitive to the polysemic, metamorphic lives of language, inspiredly intuitive in his or her empathy – a Coleridge reading Wordsworth, a Karl Barth glossing Romans, a Mandelstam responding to Dante – will come […]

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