George Steiner

George Steiner on How To Reform The Humanities

in The Nexus Institute

What then shall we do? Some reforms are not difficult to envisage. We must purge our vocabulary, we must clean up our language to say what we mean.

George Steiner: The Humanities Don’t Humanize

in The Nexus Institute

When we invoke the ideals and practices of the humanities, there is no assurance…that they humanize.

George Steiner on Science and the Humanities

in The Nexus Institute

The explosion of science and technology has transformed not only our universities but after Descartes and Leibniz the very status of knowledge and of truth.