"Four impressive lectures about the culture of recent times (from the French Revolution) and the conceivable culture of times to come." - New Yorker "An all too convincing diagnosis of what is happening to the 'culture' as America leads the world in rejecting wisdom and knowledge for more comfort, which is turning out to be comfortless."--Louis Finkelstein "George Steiner comes to the conclusion . . . that classical humanism is at an end. But he consoles us with the prospect that the intellectual characteristic of the ...
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"Four impressive lectures about the culture of recent times (from the French Revolution) and the conceivable culture of times to come." - New Yorker "An all too convincing diagnosis of what is happening to the 'culture' as America leads the world in rejecting wisdom and knowledge for more comfort, which is turning out to be comfortless."--Louis Finkelstein "George Steiner comes to the conclusion . . . that classical humanism is at an end. But he consoles us with the prospect that the intellectual characteristic of the European tradition is irrepressible. It will go on even if it means finding more truths that kill. The seventh door in Bluebeard's castle offers us, in the bankruptcy of hope, the dignity of daring."-- New York Times Book Review " In Bluebeard's Castle is a brief and brilliant book. . . . One of the most important books I have read for a very long time."-- New Society
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Good. Good-Dust Jacket. Size: 5x0x7; Good hardcover with good-DJ, from a personal collection (NOT ex-library). Markings throughout, clipped dust jacket has heavy rubbing, edgewear. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square. 1st edition, with no additional printings listed on CP (1st printing/true first edition). Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Like New. Size: 9x6x1; [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey. ] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. 141 p., 21 cm. "George Steiner comes to the conclusion, that classical humanism is at an end. But he consoles us with the prospect that the intellectual characteristic of the European tradition is irrepressible. It will go on even if it means finding more truths that kill. The seventh door in Bluebeard's castle offers us, in the bankruptcy of hope, the dignity of daring."-New York Times Book Review "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation."-Johns Hopkins University.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book Presumed 1st edition. No additional printings listed. Hardbound in unclipped dust jacket with $5.95 price. Minor wear to dust jacket corners & edges, otherwise very good.
