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Author Steiner, George, 1929-

Title Real presences / George Steiner
Edition Paperback edition
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1989]
©1989
©1989

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Description 236 pages ; 21 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for Real presences / George Steiner. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- I. A Secondary City -- II. The Broken Contract -- III. Presences -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Language and languages Philosophy, Arts Philosophy
Summary 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
Analysis Arts Philosophy
Language and languages Philosophy
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes index
Subject Arts -- Philosophy.
Language and languages -- Philosophy.
LC no. 89004897
ISBN 0226772330 (alk. paper)
0226772349
9780226772349