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

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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: George Steiner's Tolstoy or Dostoevsky has become a classic among scholars of Russian literature. An essay in poetic and philosophic criticism that bears mainly on the Russian masters, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky deals also with larger themes: the epic tradition extending from Homer to Tolstoy; the continuity of a "tragic world view" from Oedipus Rex to King Lear and The Brothers Karamazov; the contrasts between the epic and dramatic modes, between irreconcilably opposed views of God and of history...read more

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9780300069174 | 2 edition (Yale Univ Pr, December 1, 1996), cover price $37.00 | About this edition: George Steiner's Tolstoy or Dostoevsky has become a classic among scholars of Russian literature.

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Product Description: George Steiner, one of the great literary minds of our century, here relates the story of his own life and the ways that people, places, and events have colored the central ideas and themes of his work. Brilliant and witty, his memoir reveals Steiner's thoughts on the meaning of the western tradition and its philosophic and religious premises...read more

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9780300075038 | Yale Univ Pr, March 1, 1998, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Relates the events of the author's life, and examines how the people, places, and events he experienced have colored the central ideas and themes of his work

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9780300080957 | Yale Univ Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: George Steiner, one of the great literary minds of our century, here relates the story of his own life and the ways that people, places, and events have colored the central ideas and themes of his work.

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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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Product Description: Rare book: Price in USD

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9788439719564 | Random House Mondadori, January 28, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Rare book: Price in USD

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

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Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Good, Originating in the Gifford lectures 1990. A very good, clean, copy.

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9780571206810 | Gardners Books, March 19, 2001, cover price $31.25 | About this edition: Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival.

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9780300097290 | Yale Univ Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $34.00

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Product Description: Roaming across topics as diverse as the Hebrew Bible, the history of science and mathematics, the ontology of Heidegger, and the poetry of Paul Celan, Steiner examines how the twentieth century has placed in doubt the rationale and credibility of a future tense - the existence of hope...read more

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9780300088632 | Yale Univ Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $39.00 | About this edition: Roaming across topics as diverse as the Hebrew Bible, the history of science and mathematics, the ontology of Heidegger, and the poetry of Paul Celan, Steiner examines how the twentieth century has placed in doubt the rationale and credibility of a future tense - the existence of hope.

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

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Product Description: El precario refugio de las ideologías, los torvos fantasmas de la familia o la figura de Dios centran estas singulares parábolas y sirven para que el escritor desvele sus postulados éticos. Este no es un libro de tesis, sino una singular reunión de narraciones.

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9788423323104 | Destino, September 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: El precario refugio de las ideologías, los torvos fantasmas de la familia o la figura de Dios centran estas singulares parábolas y sirven para que el escritor desvele sus postulados éticos.

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9788478446063 | Italian edition edition (Siruela, September 30, 2002), cover price $36.95

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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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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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Product Description: Rare book: Price in USD

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9788478448784 | Siruela, June 30, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Rare book: Price in USD

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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: Después de Babel ensaya una larga historia, más extensa que la de cualquier imperio y tan remota como la de las más antiguas lenguas conocidas. Una historia que no se limita a la de ningún pueblo y que, en rigor, debería abarcar la de todos...read more

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9789681664626 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 2005, cover price $20.99 | About this edition: Después de Babel ensaya una larga historia, más extensa que la de cualquier imperio y tan remota como la de las más antiguas lenguas conocidas.

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Product Description: A partir de unas palabras en las que Schelling insinua, a la manera de los gnosticos, que la tristeza es el telon de fondo de la naturaleza en general y de la condicion humana en particular, George Steiner desarrolla diez tesis acerca de la tristeza inherente a la condicion pensante del ser humano...read more

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9788498410334 | Poc tra edition (Siruela, March 28, 2007), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A partir de unas palabras en las que Schelling insinua, a la manera de los gnosticos, que la tristeza es el telon de fondo de la naturaleza en general y de la condicion humana en particular, George Steiner desarrolla diez tesis acerca de la tristeza inherente a la condicion pensante del ser humano.

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Product Description: El escritor, uno de los filósofos más destacados de nuestro tiempo y un gran estudioso del pensamiento contemporáneo, revisa en estas páginas diversos planteamientos como eventuales causas de la tristeza subyacente en la existencia humana, y nos conduce a una mejor comprensión del pensamiento, de esa capacidad de reflexión que no cesa en la vida del hombre...read more

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9789681684020 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 2007, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: El escritor, uno de los filósofos más destacados de nuestro tiempo y un gran estudioso del pensamiento contemporáneo, revisa en estas páginas diversos planteamientos como eventuales causas de la tristeza subyacente en la existencia humana, y nos conduce a una mejor comprensión del pensamiento, de esa capacidad de reflexión que no cesa en la vida del hombre.

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9789681683825 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 2007, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: El escritor, uno de los filósofos más destacados de nuestro tiempo y un gran estudioso del pensamiento contemporáneo, revisa en estas páginas diversos planteamientos como eventuales causas de la tristeza subyacente en la existencia humana, y nos conduce a una mejor comprensión del pensamiento, de esa capacidad de reflexión que no cesa en la vida del hombre.

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Product Description: Colección de ensayos de uno de los pensadores de más significativo aporte en el campo de la crítica literaria del siglo XX. Los asuntos que en ellos aborda indagan en algunos temas "de frontera", que se tienden como vínculo entre disciplinas distintas, o bien, se ubican a la vanguardia del pensamiento contemporáneo, por lo que exigen el fructífero diálogo intelectual que estos escritos se proponen abrir...read more

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9789681661168 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 2002, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Colección de ensayos de uno de los pensadores de más significativo aporte en el campo de la crítica literaria del siglo XX.

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9789681680299 | Fondo De Cultura Economica USA, December 31, 2007, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Colección de ensayos de uno de los pensadores de más significativo aporte en el campo de la crítica literaria del siglo XX.

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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: El conflicto entre Antígona y Greonte representa un dilema eterno en toda sociedad: la obligación de la sangre irremediablemente opuesta a la ley de Estado. La tragedia Antígona de Sófocles no sólo sacudió a los espectadores del teatro griego...read more

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9788497843560 | Gedisa Editorial S A, January 1, 2009, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: El conflicto entre Antígona y Greonte representa un dilema eterno en toda sociedad: la obligación de la sangre irremediablemente opuesta a la ley de Estado.

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