With his hallmark forceful discernment, George Steiner offers The
Poetry of Thought as his magnum opus: an examination of more than
two millennia of Western culture that argues on behalf of 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 "a hidden literary prose." "The poetic genius
of abstract thought," Steiner believes, "is lit, is made audible.
Argument, even analytic, has its drumbeat. It is made ode. What
voices the closing movements of Hegel's Phenomenology better than
Edith Piaf's non de non, a twofold negation which Hegel would have
prized? This essay is an attempt to listen more closely."
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