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An edition of Grammars of Creation: originating in the Gifford Lectures for 1990 (2001)

Grammars of creation

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"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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Yale University Press
Language
English
Pages
344

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Miscellanea, Creation, Beginning, Creative ability, Literature, history and criticism, Erfindung, Künstlerische Tätigkeit, Literaturproduktion, Cultuurfilosofie, Creativiteit, Création (esthétique), Philosophie
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2001, Faber and Faber
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2001, Yale University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New Haven
Series
Gifford lectures ;, 1990.

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Dewey Decimal Class
116
Library of Congress
BD638 .S76 2001, BD638.S76 2001

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Pagination
344 p. ;
Number of pages
344

Edition Identifiers

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OL6793845M
ISBN 10
0300088639
LCCN
00061448
OCLC/WorldCat
234094760, 44768952
LibraryThing
241403
Goodreads
730163

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OL82726W

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