by George Steiner, Antoine Spire · Taller Mario Muchnik · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788492386987
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«La barbarie de la ignorancia» is the essay by George Steiner in dialogue with Antoine Spire, published by Taller Mario Muchnik in paperback (124 pages).
In this dialogue, George Steiner and Antoine Spire reflect on the cultured man facing the barbarism of the twentieth century. Steiner asks what meaning can arise from the mountain of rubble left by the century and questions the role of culture and the intellectual between barbarism and the technocratic and technological esperanto.
Translation from French by Mario Muchnik. Published in 1999 in Spanish, within the Philosophy category.
For readers interested in philosophy, cultural criticism, and the role of the intellectual in contemporary society.
Francis George Steiner, FBA was a French and American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist and educator. He wrote extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, as well as the impact of the Holocaust. A 2001 article in The Guardian described Steiner as a "polyglot and polymath".
