Language & Silence: Essays on Language, Literature & the Inhuman
Sign in to keep track of books you’ve read and want to read.
How do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been made to articulate falsehoods in certain totalitarian regimes or has been charged with vulgarity and imprecision in a mass-consumer democracy? How will language react to the increasingly urgent claims of more exact speech such as mathematics and symbolic notation? These are some of the questions Steiner addresses in this elegantly written book, first published in 1967 to international acclaim.
Liked Language & Silence: Essays on Language, Literature & the Inhuman? Here’s where I’d start.
These suit anyone who liked Language & Silence: Essays on Language, Literature & the Inhuman. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.
-
Interpretation and Overinterpretation Shares philosophy, nonfiction, literary theory -
Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas Shares philosophy, essays, nonfiction -
Love and Death in the American Novel Shares nonfiction, literary criticism, criticism -
The Major Works Shares philosophy, essays, nonfiction
