The purpose of this essay is to elucidate the philosophical tools developed in George Steiner's marvelous body of work. In his writings, he carries on a lucid observation and description of human spirit's linguistic creation and formulation. His observations do not deviate from the way of a strict ethics inherited from ilustrated spiritual Judaism. His legacy about thought on language and his role as a contemporary culture's critic (a paradigmatic legacy, of heuristic value) leads us to a reflection on our continent and history. As an anthropological work, it aims at a practical comprehension of gregariousness and to a psychic and physiological elucidation of the human phenomena.
Keywords:
philosophy of history, homo sapiens, a theory of culture, metamorphosis, “a policy of truth”, jews, diaspora, exile, humanism, hermeneutics, gramar, philology
Cassigolli Salamon, R. (2013). Ethics in action: anthropology and humanism in the work of George Steiner. Revista De Filosofía, 69, Pág. 39–49. Retrieved from https://revistafilosofia.uchile.cl/index.php/RDF/article/view/30104
