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George Steiner on the Poetry of Thought
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65 minutes
Released:
Mar 31, 2016
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Renowned polyglot and polymath, George Steiner has long been recognised as one of the most original minds and brilliant lecturers of our generation. In this talk from April 2009, he argued that at the deepest level there is no essential difference between the language of poetry on the one side, and the language of science, philosophy and politics on the other. Poets and scientists may appear to inhabit different worlds, but as Steiner shows in a series of fascinating examples, the boundaries that separate their modes of thought and articulation are, at root, arbitrary. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
Mar 31, 2016
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Podcast episode
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