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  • Hardcover: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press (4 Nov 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0674012070
  • ISBN-13: 978-0674012073
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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[Steiner's] learning is certainly on display in "Lessons of the Masters"... Some of the finest passages in the book are impassioned definitions of the act of teaching...It seems only appropriate that in this and other recent books, he should turn his attention to his own profession, with something of the spirit of civic responsibility. Yet despite the plaudits and honours, George Steiner cuts a strikingly lonely figure as he champions the life of the mind and its great practitioners. He does so in a world largely given over to a different kind of celebrity. -- Stephen Romer "The Guardian" (02/07/2004)

Laurie Taylor, Times Higher, 5 December 2003
His dazzling new book is full of similarly joyful, even ecstatic, references to the rewards of teaching.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The best are filled with passionate intensity, 8 Oct 2006
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George Steiner, for long shamefully under-rated in Britain, sums up in this impassioned book his views on his usual remarkably wide range of subjects, notably philosophy,religion and literature. His main concern is with the desire, even lust, for knowledge and understanding, and the all-important relationship between master and pupil, which can - perhaps should - develop a strong erotic element. "Eros and teaching are inextricable", Steiner declares bravely, and traces the recurrent fusion of Geist and Eros, from Socrates and Alcibiades, via Héloise and Abelard, Heidegger and Hannah Arendt to (diminuendo) Alan Bloom and his acolytes.
While accepting that the impact of computers and internet on the learning process is "already momentous", he believes, passionately, that the "charismatic aura of the inspired teacher... will surely endure... Eros and the classics are never far apart."
His book is a clarion call for the continued study of the western tradition in the highest sense, of the teachers of Jerusalem and Athens and their successors. Steiner does not dismiss Asian traditions - indeed, he calls for far better understanding of Islam. Instead, he turns his withering scorn on "artificially hyped and factitious oralities, folk texts, sub- and anti-literacies... pseudo-curricula institutionalized at the price of indispensable disciplines... history rewritten to the point of parody." Perilously dismissive sentiments if Steiner were much younger and so still vulnerable to accusations of political or academic incorrectness.
In short, a wonderful, inspirational book, still burning with intellectual fire if valedictory in tone.
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