Language and Silence - Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman

George Steiner

Yale University Press

1998

440 páginas

14h 40m

ISBN-13: 9780300074710

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.