George Steiner

Died: February 3, 2020, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Francis George Steiner, was a literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, and educator. He wrote extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society.

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Responsion is a Correspondence, an 'Entsprechen'

But can we get no closer to this absolutely determining, all-pervading word? Is Heidegger's existential ontology expressive only in terms of elusive circularity?

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She Thinks, Therefore She Can

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Oh my God, Pascal's romantic tendencies towards this man-made embodiment figure are vile drivel, let's call a spade a spade and Jesus the fictional phenomenon that he was made to be.

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Somatic Marker Hypothesis

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Leonardo da Vinci
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A Nihilist's Pension

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Sappho
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The Identity of an Atheist

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Voltaire
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For He Would Be Lion and We Be Truth Hunters

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Barely Imaginable

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Jonathan Swift
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The Pinnacle of Professions

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George Steiner
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Depressed Long Term Depression (LTD)

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Dante
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To Hoard or Not to Hoard

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Christine de Pizan
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Proceed Carefully, Very Carefully!

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Edgar Allan Poe