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Real Presences

Real Presences( )
Author: Steiner, George
ISBN:978-0-226-77234-9
Publication Date:Apr 1991
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $29.00
Book Description:

Can there be major dimensions of a poem, a painting, a musical composition created in the absence of God? Or, is God always a real presence in the arts? Steiner passionately argues that a transcendent reality grounds all genuine art and human communication.

"A real tour de force. . . . All the virtues of the author's astounding intelligence and compelling rhetoric are evident from the first sentence onward."--Anthony C. Yu, Journal of Religion

Book Details
Pages:246
Detailed Subjects: Philosophy / Language
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.5 x 8.5 x 0.8 Inches
Book Weight:0.664 Pounds
Author Biography
Steiner, George (Author)
George Steiner was born in 1929 in Paris, but also lived in Vienna and New York.

Steiner was a critic, novelist, philosopher, translator, and educator. Currently, he is a professor at Cambridge University and the University of Geneva.

He has written for the New Yorker for over thirty years and has published the books No Passion Spent, Errata: An Examined Life, and Martin Heidegger: With a New Introduction.

George Steiner died in Cambridge, England on February 3, 2020, at the age of 90. 030



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