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By Aminadav Dykman (editor), Homer and George Steiner (editor)

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9780140446210 | Penguin USA, September 1, 1996, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: The Idea of Europe finds George Steiner reckoning with Europe from a number of different angles. “Europe,” he writes, “is the place where Goethe’s garden almost borders on Buchenwald, where the house of Corneille abuts on the market-place in which Joan of Arc was hideously done to death...read more

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9781468310245 | Overlook Pr, March 10, 2015, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The Idea of Europe finds George Steiner reckoning with Europe from a number of different angles.

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The author presents a penetrating analysis of the collapse of Western culture during the last half of the twentieth century

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9780300017106 | Yale Univ Pr, August 1, 1974, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The author presents a penetrating analysis of the collapse of Western culture during the last half of the twentieth century

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Essays, though broad in scope, focus upon the validity of language in a decaying culture

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9780689702266 | Macmillan Pub Co, June 1, 1967, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Essays, though broad in scope, focus upon the validity of language in a decaying culture

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Based on an original collection of lectures, a series of essays focuses on the art, wisdom, and lore of many exemplary teachers, including Socrates, Plato, Jesus, Virgil, Confucian and Buddhist philosophers, and others, examining a variety of traditions and disciplines in terms of the complex relationship between mentor and student.

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9789681674519 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, January 5, 2005, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Based on an original collection of lectures, a series of essays focuses on the art, wisdom, and lore of many exemplary teachers, including Socrates, Plato, Jesus, Virgil, Confucian and Buddhist philosophers, and others, examining a variety of traditions and disciplines in terms of the complex relationship between mentor and student.

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9788499087481 | Poc edition (Debolsillo, February 1, 2011), cover price $13.95

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Product Description: From its founding in 1648, the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture and its successor, the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris, were devoted to the Greek model. Mythology and poetry, along with the study of sculpture, were the foundations of academic teaching there...read more

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9780300109184 | Yale Univ Pr, October 7, 2005, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: From its founding in 1648, the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture and its successor, the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris, were devoted to the Greek model.

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Product Description: BOOKS IN SPANISH

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9788497840088 | Gedisa Editorial S A, June 30, 2003, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: BOOKS IN SPANISH

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Product Description: When we talk about education today, we tend to avoid the rhetoric of "mastery," with its erotic and inegalitarian overtones. But the charged personal encounter between master and disciple is precisely what interests George Steiner in this book, a sustained reflection on the infinitely complex and subtle interplay of power, trust, and passions in the most profound sorts of pedagogy...read more

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9780674012073 | Harvard Univ Pr, November 4, 2003, cover price $19.95

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9780674017672 | Harvard Univ Pr, April 30, 2005, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: When we talk about education today, we tend to avoid the rhetoric of "mastery," with its erotic and inegalitarian overtones.

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Product Description: El reconocido filósofo y ensayista comenta de este libro: "Un libro no escrito es algo más que un vacío. Acompaña a la obra que uno ha hecho como una sombra irónica y triste; es una de las vidas que podríamos haber vivido, uno de los viajes que nunca emprendimos...read more

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9788499088211 | Poc edition (Debolsillo, January 3, 2011), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: El reconocido filósofo y ensayista comenta de este libro: "Un libro no escrito es algo más que un vacío.

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Product Description: Los textos reunidos en esta obra significan un recorrido crítico por las bases teóricas que han sustentado la obra de George Steiner. Su concepción del arte, su visión "logocrática" del lenguaje -que sostiene que "el hombre no es el dueño del lenguaje, sino su servidor"-, su relación con el libro y las "religiones del libro", entre otras perspectivas y lecturas culturales de gran peso se encuentran expuestas en estas páginas...read more

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9789681683160 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 2007, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: Los textos reunidos en esta obra significan un recorrido crítico por las bases teóricas que han sustentado la obra de George Steiner.

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9789681683153 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 2007, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Los textos reunidos en esta obra significan un recorrido crítico por las bases teóricas que han sustentado la obra de George Steiner.

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Product Description: Los textos reunidos en esta obra significan un recorrido crítico por las bases teóricas que han sustentado la obra de George Steiner. Su concepción del arte, su visión "logocrática" del lenguaje -que sostiene que "el hombre no es el dueño del lenguaje, sino su servidor"-, su relación con el libro y las "religiones del libro", entre otras perspectivas y lecturas culturales de gran peso se encuentran expuestas en estas páginas...read more

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9788499087474 | Poc tra edition (Debolsillo, February 1, 2011), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Los textos reunidos en esta obra significan un recorrido crítico por las bases teóricas que han sustentado la obra de George Steiner.

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With characteristic lucidity and style, Steiner makes Heidegger's immensely difficult body of work accessible to the general reader. In a new introduction, Steiner addresses language and philosophy and the rise of Nazism. (view table of contents)

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9780844663845 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1989, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: With characteristic lucidity and style, Steiner makes Heidegger's immensely difficult body of work accessible to the general reader.

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9780226772325 | Reissue edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, September 25, 1991), cover price $23.00

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9789800111499 | Monte Avila Latinoamericana Ca, March 1, 2001, cover price $25.95

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Product Description: In this fiercely original and audacious work, George Steiner tells of seven books that he did not writeSteiner did not write the books because intimacies and indiscretions were too threatening. Because the topic brought too much pain...read more

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9780811217033 | New Directions, January 1, 2008, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A forefront literary critic meditates on seven books he had intended to write, explaining that his unwritten works proved too intimate, challenging, or painful to commit to publication and revealing how the stories confronted such themes as aberrant sex, exile, and the humbling limitations of talent.

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9780811217934 | Reprint edition (New Directions, February 24, 2014), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In this fiercely original and audacious work, George Steiner tells of seven books that he did not writeSteiner did not write the books because intimacies and indiscretions were too threatening.
9780753825693 | Orion Pub Co, January 8, 2009, cover price $16.45

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9780029312506 | Free Pr, March 1, 1983, cover price $32.95

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George Steiner-one of the preeminent essayists and literary thinkers of our era-here addresses issues of language and the relation of language to literature and to religion. He covers a wide range of subjects, from Homer, Shakespeare, Kafka, Kierkegaard, and Simone Weil to Jewish scripture, religious tradition, and the effects of the Holocaust. At a time when the art of reading and the status of text are threatened, Steiner affirms the primacy of reading in the classical sense.

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9780300066302 | Yale Univ Pr, July 1, 1996, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: George Steiner-one of the preeminent essayists and literary thinkers of our era-here addresses issues of language and the relation of language to literature and to religion.

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9780300074406 | Yale Univ Pr, March 1, 1998, cover price $43.00

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9788478445417 | Italian edition edition (Siruela, June 30, 2001), cover price $17.95

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Product Description: The decline of formal religious systems has left a moral and emotional emptiness in Western culture. George Steiner, internationally renowned thinker and scholar, pursues this and examines the alternative "mythologies" of Marxism, Freudian psychology, Lévi-Straussian anthropology, and fads of irrationality...read more

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9780887845949 | House of Anansi Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The decline of formal religious systems has left a moral and emotional emptiness in Western culture.

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Contains the complete text of the King James version of the Old Testament, from Genesis to Malachi
By George Steiner (editor)

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9780679451020 | Everymans Library, November 1, 1996, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Contains the complete text of the King James version of the Old Testament, from Genesis to Malachi

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Product Description: Eight essays by George Steiner.

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9780192122087 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 1978, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Eight essays by George Steiner.

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Eight essays by the literary critic probe the history and formal structure of inward speech as well as the relationship between linguistics and poetics and between language and literature

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9780195202229 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 1980, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Eight essays by the literary critic probe the history and formal structure of inward speech as well as the relationship between linguistics and poetics and between language and literature

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By Walter Benjamin, John Osborne (trans) and George Steiner (introduced by)

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9781844673483 | Reprint edition (Verso Books, June 9, 2009), cover price $19.95

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Product Description: New product. Never used!

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9786071611321, titled "La poesía del pensamiento / The poetry of thought: Del Helenismo a Celan / from Hellenism to Celan" | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 13, 2012, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: New product.

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