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Title: Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman by George Steiner ISBN: 0-300-07471-9 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: The Tragedy of Language
Comment: Paraphrasing Mr. Steiner, there is not much new or revealing that can be said of an important writer in one or two paragraphs. The tragic strength of Steiner's unsuccessful considerations is that we cannot conceive in which of our cognitive faculties are the ideal of pure reason and language connected together. If we drive this question to its ultimate consequences, it becomes manifest that the multiplicity of the cognitive processes become modalized not only in relation with what is itself given, but to what is not given as well, and always grammatically. I will try to explain that point more clearly: Let us suppose, for example, that the discipline of human reason constitutes the whole content for the things in themselves independent of language. This fascinatingly urgent subject remains to be appropriately dealt with. In the case of human reason it is necessary to accept that categories can never, as a whole, furnish a true and communicable science without language, because they would thereby contradict fundamental inductive principles. It remains a mystery why, in particular, the noumena (in a Kantian sense) occupy part of the sphere of our experience concerning the existence of our judgements in general, and our knowledge can not take account of the objects in space and time without language. Certainly, language is just as necessary as the practical employment of the noumena.
Rating: 5
Summary: Did you understand the previous review?
Comment: Referring to the preceeding review: pedantry of such a bold-faced variety, (notwithstanding the author's ignorance of current orthographical conventions) leaves one astounded and disgusted. Unless it was a joke, in which case: ha ha. The book is so much more than the reviews contained on this page would have us believe. Buy it and enjoy.
Rating: 5
Summary: lingustically defined and varnished brilliance
Comment: As which a dazzling composition whose mere origins and idioms stand enthralled and benighted as one, Steiner's capability of depicting an intellectually stimulationg and provoking masterpiece redefining literature and humanity through the speculum of contradiction and flamboyant texture of obstreperous ignorence is rejuvenating, thrilling and refreshing if not disgusting and dettering both in faith and knowledge.
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Title: Grammars of Creation by George Steiner ISBN: 0300097298 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Real Presences by George Steiner ISBN: 0226772349 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: April, 1991 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Lessons of the Masters : by George Steiner ISBN: 0674012070 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Errata: An Examined Life by George Steiner ISBN: 0300080956 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture by George, Steiner ISBN: 0300017103 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 1974 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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