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"We have no more beginnings," George Steiner begins in this, his most radical e book at this point. A far-reaching exploration of the thought of creation in European thought, literature, religion, and record, this quantity can quite be called a magnum opus. He shows on the several ways we've of discussing beginnings, on the "core-tiredness" that pervades our end-of-the-millennium spirit, and on the changing sentence structure of our conversations about the end of Western fine art and culture. With his well-known elegance of style and intellectual range, Steiner probes deeply in to the driving forces of the individual spirit and our perception of American civilization's lengthening day shadows. Roaming across topics as diverse as the Hebrew Bible, the history of science and mathematics, the ontology of Heidegger, and the poetry of Paul Celan, Steiner examines the way the twentieth century has put in doubt the explanation and credibility of another tense - the living of wish. Acknowledging that technology and science may have changed art and literature as the traveling forces in our culture, Steiner warns that this has not took place without a significant loss. The forces of technology and science alone neglect to illuminate inevitable individual questions regarding value, beliefs, and meaning. And yet it is difficult to think that the storyline out of Genesis has ended, Steiner observes, and he concludes this masterful volume of reflections with an eloquent evocation of the endlessness of beginnings.
