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Lessons of the Masters George Steiner

Lessons of the Masters By George Steiner

Lessons of the Masters by George Steiner


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Summary

The charged personal encounter between master and disciple is precisely what interests George Steiner in this text, a sustained reflection on the infinitely complex and subtle interplay of power, trust and passions in the most profound sorts of pedagogy.

Lessons of the Masters Summary

Lessons of the Masters by George Steiner

When we talk about education, we tend to avoid the rhetoric of mastery, with its erotic and inegalitarian overtones. But the charged personal encounter between master and disciple is precisely what interests George Steiner in this book, a sustained reflection on the infinitely complex and subtle interplay of power, trust and passions in the most profound sorts of pedagogy. Based on Steiner's Norton Lectures on the art and lore of teaching, Lessons of the Masters evokes a host of exemplary figures including Socrates and Plato, Jesus and his disciples, Virgil and Dante, Heloise and Abelard, Tycho Brahe and Johann Kepler, the Baal Shem Tov, Confucian and Buddhist sages, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, Nadia Boulanger, and Knute Rockne. Pivotal in the unfolding of Western culture are Socrates and Jesus, charismatic masters who left no written teachings, founded no schools. In the efforts of their disciples, in the passion narratives inspired by their deaths, Steiner sees the beginnings of the inward vocabulary, the encoded recognitions of much of our moral, philosophical and theological idiom. He goes on to consider a diverse array of traditions and disciplines, recurring throughout, to three underlying themes: the master's power to exploit his student's dependence and vulnerability; the complementary threat of subversion and betrayal of the mentor by his pupil; and the reciprocal exchange of trust and love, of learning and instruction between master and disciple.

About George Steiner

George Steiner's books have served many a learner over the years. His After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation and In Blueheard's Castle: Some Notes Toward the Redefinition of Culture have attained the status of classics.

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GOR003305874
9780674012073
0674012070
Lessons of the Masters by George Steiner
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Harvard University Press
20031104
192
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