“If future society assumes the contours foretold by Marxism, if the jungle of our cities turns to the polis of man and the dreams of anger are made real, the representative art will be high comedy. Art will be the laughter of intelligence, as it is in Plato, in Mozart, in Stendhal.” IfsMenArtMadeRealDreamTurnsCitiesComedyLaughterAssumingRepresentativesPlatoJungleMarxismPolisFuture Society Book:Language and silence: essays on language, literature, and the inhuman Source: Language and silence: essays on language, literature, and the inhuman
“There would be no history as we know it, no religion, no metaphysics or aesthetics as we have lived them, without an initial act of trust, of confiding, more fundamental, more axiomatic by far than any “social contract” or covenant with the postulate of the divine. This instauration of trust, this entrance of man into the city of man, is that between word and world.” KnowsMenWorldWould BeSocialCitiesDivineFundamentalsContractsMetaphysicsInitialsAestheticsCovenantEntrancesSocial ContractConfiding Book:Real Presences Source: Real Presences
“More and more lower-middle-income families either live their lives in debt or leave the city altogether. The boom is strictly at the penthouse level.” LevelsCitiesMiddleDebtIncomePenthouses Author:George Steiner
“To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the city of Socrates and the city of Isaiah.” TryingCitiesStatementsOpposingPraxis Author:George Steiner
