{"title":"George Steiner","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeorge Steiner nasceu em Paris, em 1929. Licenciado pela Universidade de Chicago, mestre pela Universidade de Harvard e doutor pela Universidade de Oxford, integrou a equipe editorial da revista \u003cem\u003eEconomist\u003c\/em\u003e e trabalhou no Institute for Advanced Study da Universidade de Princeton. Professor emérito da Universidade de Cambridge, já lecionou em Oxford, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale e Genebra. Escreveu para publicações como \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e e \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e, e é autor de diversos livros, entre eles \u003cem\u003eNenhuma paixão desperdiçada\u003c\/em\u003e, também publicado pela Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"nenhuma-paixao-desperdicada","title":"No passion wasted","description":"In this work, George Steiner – one of the world's most celebrated literary critics – turns to language, its relationship to literature, and also to religion.\n\n Through three canons of Western literature—the Bible, Homer, and Shakespeare—the author analyzes forms of \"applied reading.\" In one of his Oxford lectures, transcribed in the work, he answers, for example, the question \"What is comparative literature?\" He also examines the works of Freud, Kierkegaard, Kafka, and Simone Weil, as well as exploring the circuits of Hellenic heritage in the essay \"Absolute Tragedy,\" in which he revisits Macbeth, Hamlet, Faust, and Phaedra.\n In an era in which the art of reading and the status of the text have been challenged by literary movements and new information technologies, the 21 essays in No Passion Wasted explore and reorient analyses of reading and literature in traditional formats, celebrating the primacy of the art of reading, in its classical sense.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159601135868,"sku":"9788501113108","price":84.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/4d91ef824bd7f8514cca6a4572f20191.jpg?v=1778321244"},{"product_id":"licoes-dos-mestres","title":"Lessons from the masters","description":"A unique testament to the lofty vocation of teaching and the risks that surround the true teacher and his apprentice.\n\n Lessons from the Masters – a book based on the six lectures in the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures series, given by George Steiner at Harvard University, on the art of teaching and learning – addresses the relationship between teachers and students, taking as examples Socrates and Plato, Jesus and his disciples, Virgil and Dante, Heloise and Abelard, the sages of Confucianism and Buddhism, the sad relationship between Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, and the worldwide devotion among the followers of the musician Nadia Boulanger.\n Steiner highlights a complex and fascinating arrangement of traditions and disciplines, always resorting to three themes: the master's power to exploit the disciple's dependence and vulnerability; the threat of subversion and betrayal of the mentor by his pupil; and the reciprocal exchange of trust and love, of learning and instruction, between student and master.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159601856764,"sku":"9788501113115","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/dc5237dd51b126341921570eeefe3764.jpg?v=1781755222"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/george-steiner.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}