When we talk about education today, we tend to avoid the rhetoric
of "mastery," with its erotic and inegalitarian overtones. But the
charged personal encounter between master and disciple is precisely
what interests George Steiner in this book, a sustained reflection
on the infinitely complex and subtle interplay of power, trust, and
passions in the most profound sorts of pedagogy. Based on Steiner's
Norton Lectures on the art and lore of teaching, "Lessons of the
Masters" evokes a host of exemplary figures, including Socrates and
Plato, Jesus and his disciples, Virgil and Dante, Heloise and
Abelard, Tycho Brahe and Johann Kepler, the Baal Shem Tov,
Confucian and Buddhist sages, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger,
Nadia Boulanger, and Knute Rockne.
Pivotal in the unfolding of Western culture are Socrates and
Jesus, charismatic masters who left no written teachings, founded
no schools. In the efforts of their disciples, in the passion
narratives inspired by their deaths, Steiner sees the beginnings of
the inward vocabulary, the encoded recognitions of much of our
moral, philosophical, and theological idiom. He goes on to consider
a diverse array of traditions and disciplines, recurring throughout
to three underlying themes: the master's power to exploit his
student's dependence and vulnerability; the complementary threat of
subversion and betrayal of the mentor by his pupil; and the
reciprocal exchange of trust and love, of learning and instruction
between master and disciple.
Forcefully written, passionately argued, "Lessons of the
Masters" is itself a masterly testament to the high vocation and
perilous risks undertaken by true teacher and learner alike.
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