{"id":4977,"date":"2012-01-16T12:06:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T20:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymindonbooks.com\/?p=4977"},"modified":"2012-01-16T12:06:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T20:06:02","slug":"new-book-the-poetry-of-thought-from-hellenism-to-celan-by-george-steiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymindonbooks.com\/?p=4977","title":{"rendered":"new book &#8211; &#8216;The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan&#8217; by George Steiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0811219453\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=mymindonbooks-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0811219453\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mymindonbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/poetry.jpg\" alt=\"The Poetry of Thought\" title=\"poetry\" width=\"114\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4978\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0811219453\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=mymindonbooks-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=0811219453\">The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan<\/a> by George Steiner (New Directions, 2012)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0811219453\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=mymionbo-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=0811219453\">(amazon.co.uk &#8211; 15 Jan, but not yet released as of 16 Jan)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Product description from the publisher:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From the distinguished polymath George Steiner comes a profound and illuminating vision of the inseparability of Western philosophy and its living language.<br \/>\nWith his hallmark forceful discernment, George Steiner presents in <em>The Poetry of Thought<\/em> his magnum opus: an examination of more than two millennia of Western culture, staking out his claim for the essential oneness of great thought and great style. Sweeping yet precise, moving from essential detail to bracing illustration, Steiner spans the entire history of philosophy in the West as it entwines with literature, finding that, as Sartre stated, in all philosophy there is \u201ca hidden literary prose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe poetic genius of abstract thought,\u201d Steiner believes, \u201cis lit, is made audible. Argument, even analytic, has its drumbeat. It is made ode. What voices the closing movements of Hegel\u2019s <em>Phenomenology<\/em> better than Edith Piaf\u2019s <em>non de non<\/em>, a twofold negation which Hegel would have prized? 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