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Disenchantment - George Steiner and Meaning of Western Civilization After Auschwitz (Hardcover)
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Disenchantment - George Steiner and Meaning of Western Civilization After Auschwitz (Hardcover)
Series: Religion, Theology and the Holocaust
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George Steiner has enjoyed international acclaim as a distinguished
cultural critic for many years. The son of central European Jews,
he was born in France, fled from the Nazis to New York in 1940, and
became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1944. Through his many books,
voluminous literary criticism, and book review articles published
in the New Yorker, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Guardian,
Steiner has played a major role in introducing the works of
prominent continental writers and thinkers to readers in North
America and Great Britain. Having escaped the Nazis as a child,
Steiner vowed that his work as an intellectual would attempt to
understand the tragedy of the Shoah. In Disenchantment, Chatterley
focuses on Steiner's neglected writings on the Holocaust and
antisemitism and places this work at the center of her analysis of
his criticism. She clearly demonstrates how Steiner's family
history and education, as well as the historical and cultural
developments that surrounded him, are central to the evolution of
his dominant intellectual concerns. It is during the 1950s and
1960s, in relation to unfolding discoveries about the Nazi murder
of European Jewry, that Steiner begins to study the effects of the
Holocaust on language and culture and then questions the very
purpose and meaning of the humanities. The first intellectual
biography of George Steiner, Disenchantment provides an invaluable
contribution to literary and cultural studies, confirming his
critical and intellectual legacy.
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