Are great works of art, literature and music 'creations' or 'inventions'? Does the mathematician 'invent' or 'discover'? Exploring an often neglected field, this book asks whether the current revolutions in our means of communication and in the biological sciences, may bring with them radical changes in the concept of individual creation and of poetic and philosophical invention. Are we returning to ancient anonymities and collectivities in aesthetic and intellectual experience? Are music and architecture now at the frontier where, as Plato would have it, truth and beauty meet? In Grammars of Creation the eminent critic George Steiner brings his unparalleled acumen and erudition to bear on these and other questions.'This is a mesmerising book . .
. Expressed in prose that is unfailingly apt, luminous and evocative.' Guardian
GEORGE STEINER (París, 1929 - Cambridge, 2020), es una de las voces intelectuales más importantes de nuestra época y uno de los más reconocidos representantes del gran espíritu de la cultura europea. Premio Príncipe de Asturias 2001 de Comunicación y Humanidades, filósofo del lenguaje, crítico literario, ensayista, políglota y defensor de la educación estética y la cultura clásica, ejerció la docencia en varias universidades de Europa y Estados Unidos, entre ellas Princeton, Stanford, Chicago, Oxford y Ginebra. Hijo de judíos vieneses, es autor, entre numerosas obras, de Nostalgia del absoluto, Fragmentos, Errata, Presencias reales o El silencio de los libros, todas ellas publicadas en castellano por Siruela.
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