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Real presencesGeorge Steiner

Real presences

1986236 pages
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Can there be major dimensions of a poem, a painting, a musical composition created in the absence of God? Or, is God always a real presence in the arts? Steiner passionately argues that a transcendent reality grounds all genuine art and human communication.

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8 editions
  • Other · English · 2013
    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · 9781480411845
  • Other · English · 2013
    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · 9781480412088
  • Other · English · 2013
    Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · 9781480412002
  • Other · English · 1991
    Faber · 236 pages · 9780571163564
  • Other · English · 1991
    University of Chicago Press · 236 pages · 9780226772349
  • Other · English · 1989
    University of Chicago Press · 236 pages · 9780226772332
PhilosophyLanguage and languagesArtsEstheticaPhilosophieLangage et languesLanguage and languages, philosophyDeath of god theology