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Quote by George Steiner

“Anything can be said and, in consequence, written about anything.”

Book:Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?

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Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?

This book delves into the philosophical and linguistic aspects of human communication, questioning the depth and authenticity of language use and its implications on our understanding of reality. more

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George Steiner

George Steiner is an esteemed literary critic, born on April 23, 1929. His work spans a wide range of literary fields, including novels, poetry, drama, and philosophy. more

“Talk can neither be verified nor falsified in any rigorous sense. This is an open secret which hermeneutics and aesthetics, from Aristotle to Croce, have laboured to exorcise or to conceal from themselves and their clients. This ontological, which is to say both primordial and essential axiom (or platitude) of ineradicable undecidability needs, none the less, to be closely argued.”

Needs Secret Essentials Clients Aesthetics Axioms Platitudes Hermeneutics

Author:George Steiner

“Women began their inner emancipation by their access to literature, by access to the world through books; an access they could not have socially or politically, or of course economically, in the world at large.”

World Book Courses Literature Access Emancipation

Author:George Steiner

“Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams. It can assert irrevocable tenure there. The opening bars, the hammer-beat accelerando of Edith Piaf's Je ne regrette rien - the text is infantile, the tune stentorian, and the politics which enlisted the song unattractive - tempt every nerve in me, touch the bone with a cold burn and draw me into God knows what infidelities to reason, each time I hear the song, and hear it, uncalled for, recurrent inside me.”